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EXPAND environment variable

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bigfatroundguy

bigfatroundguy

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Nov 27, 2005
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Does anyone know the effect that the following command has within an Autoexec.bat file:
set EXPAND=YES
It is typically found on bootdisks and I googled everywhere and found nothing
 
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I have removed the set EXPAND=YES and it seems to have no impact on my autoexec.bat successfully decompressing (using extract) the ebd.cab file onto a ramdisk (i tried several commands without issue).

If this environment variable served a purpose at one time, it certainly isn't obvious what purpose it serves now.
 
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