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Request to support INS files from 1990s which have a different format #6

@LucienMP

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@LucienMP

The older installshield files ".ins" from 1990s is not currently supported.
This seems to be a similar file format to the existing aLuZ format with some different offsets.

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Referring to : https://github.com/file/file/blob/master/magic/Magdir/windows#L1765 and

SEE: TrID ; https://mark0.net/soft-tridnet-e.html clipped as below

<Info>
	<FileType>InstallShield Script (1997)</FileType>
	<Ext>INS</Ext>
	<Mime>application/octet-stream</Mime>
	<ExtraInfo>
		<Rem></Rem>
		<RefURL>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InstallShield</RefURL>
	</ExtraInfo>
	<User>Marco Pontello</User>
	<E-Mail>[email protected]</E-Mail>
	<Home>https://mark0.net</Home>
</Info>
<General>
	<FileNum>21</FileNum>
	<Refine>7 by Marco Pontello</Refine>
	<CheckStrings>True</CheckStrings>
	<Date>
		<Year>2023</Year>
		<Month>3</Month>
		<Day>12</Day>
	</Date>
	<Time>
		<Hour>20</Hour>
		<Min>4</Min>
		<Sec>20</Sec>
	</Time>
	<Creator>TrIDScan/Py v2.02</Creator>
</General>
<FrontBlock>
	<Pattern>
		<Bytes>B8C90C00</Bytes>
		<Pos>0</Pos>
	</Pattern>
	<Pattern>
		<Bytes>000100</Bytes>
		<Pos>5</Pos>
	</Pattern>
</FrontBlock>
<GlobalStrings>
	<String>BATCH_INSTALL</String>
	<String>ERRORFILENAME</String>
	<String>HINST_INSTALL</String>
	<String>INFOFILENAME</String>
	<String>LAST_RESULT</String>
	<String>SUPPORTDIR</String>
	<String>TARGETDISK</String>
	<String>WINSYSDISK</String>
	<String>ISVERSION</String>
	<String>LOGHANDLE</String>
	<String>TARGETDIR</String>
	<String>WINSYSDIR</String>
	<String>CMDVALUE</String>
	<String>CMDLINE</String>
	<String>PROGRAM</String>
	<String>SRCDISK</String>
	<String>WINDISK</String>
	<String>FOLDER</String>
	<String>SHARED</String>
	<String>SRCDIR</String>
	<String>SYSTEM</String>
	<String>UNINST</String>
	<String>WINDIR</String>
	<String>FILES</String>
	<String>MODE</String>
	<String>USER</String>
</GlobalStrings>
[setup.ins.zip](https://github.com/jte/installscript-decompiler/files/14293684/setup.ins.zip)

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