DOS Expand

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DOS Expand

An external command starting with DOS 5 that installs decompressed files from the DOS distribution disks. Compressed files have an underscore in place of the last letter of the extension; for example, EX_ and SY_.

For example, to copy and decompress the SHARE.EXE file from A: to the DOS directory on C:, type:

    expand a:\share.ex_ c:\dos\share.exe

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