InstallShield Z

File Format
Name	InstallShield Z
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Archiving InstallShield Z
Extension(s)	.z

InstallShield Z format is a compressed archive format used by version 3 of the InstallShield installation software. As far as we know, it is a proprietary format that has not been decoded.

Identification

Files begin with bytes 13 5D 65 8C 3A 01 02 00.

See also

• InstallShield CAB (successor format)
• InstallShield installer archive

Software

• Universal Extractor
• InstallShield File Compressor: Official compressor/decompressor utility (Windows command-line). Several different versions of it can be found on the internet (as icomp.zip, icompx.zip, icomp95.zip, ...). Included with Universal Extractor.

Sample files

• http://cd.textfiles.com/cdaction/cdaction24b/GOLF/ → *.Z
• http://cd.textfiles.com/cdaction/cdaction40/DEER/ → *.Z
• http://cd.textfiles.com/hotgames/KidsEMail/ → *.z