Here's our Windows 95/98 Tip for.. January 31, 1997
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Extract Tricks
Have you ever had to use the old EXPAND.EXE command in Windows 3.x to reinstall or copy a compressed file from the disks? In Windows 95 there's a decompression utility called EXTRACT.EXE, and it's just as useful, maybe even more so. EXTRACT.EXE can be found in your \Windows folder or on the CD under \WIN95, or if you bought the disk set, on Disk No. 1. Go to a prompt and type extract /? for more details.

Here's an example of how you would use this utility from a command prompt:

EXTRACT /A /L C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM ?:\WIN95\WIN95_02.CAB MIDIMAP.DRV

This particular syntax searches all .CAB files beginning with no. 2 and installs that one file into the directory of your choosing (in this case, midimap.drv is being copied to c:\windows\system). Make sure to substitute your CD drive where you see "?". Wildcards can be used in case you wanted to, say, recopy all the .BMP's from the CD. If you have disks, you need to know which .CAB file is on each disk, or you may end up searching them all if you don't know where the file is.