EXTRACT

EXTRACTs a compressed file. You can use this command to retrieve one or more files from the Cabinet storage from Microsoft. These files are not usable unless you EXTRACT them.

EXTRACT [/Y] [/A] [/D | /E] [/L dir] cabinet [filename ...]

EXTRACT [/Y] source [newname]

EXTRACT [/Y] /C source destination

cabinet (v7.00 Win95)

Archive file of multiple file(s).

destination (v7.00 Win95)

Destination of copy.

filename (v7.00 Win95)

Name of file to extract from archive file. Wildcards or multiple filenames (separated by blanks) may be used.

newname (v7.00 Win95)

New filename to give the extracted file.

source (v7.00 Win95)

Archive (cabinet) that contains only one (1) file. (AKA Compressed file).

/A (v7.00 Win95 NT4)

Process ALL (multiple) archive(s) in chain, starting with first mentioned.

/C (v7.00 Win95 NT4)

Copy source file to destination. (ie. Copy from DMF disks).

/D (v7.00 Win95 NT4)

Display list of file(s) within archive.

/E (v7.00 Win95 NT4)

Extract ALL file(s) from archive.

/L dir (v7.00 Win95 NT4)

Directory location to place the extracted file(s) from archive.

/Y (v7.00 Win95 NT4)

Do NOT prompt before overwriting an existing file.

ATTRIB - Display or change file attributes.
COPY - Copy one or more files to another location.
Equivalent Linux BASH commands:
gzip - Compress or decompress named file(s).

none.

none.

• 0 No errors
• 1 The source archive/cabinet could not be opened/located

External

DOS

v7.00 v7.0R1 v7.10 v8.00

Windows

Win95 Win98 WinME

Windows NT

NT4