Actually no. The -F parameter was added '99 and came with Win 2000.
Well, it's not what
You must be registered to see the links
say, but in the same time it's what
You must be registered to see the links
say, so my memory can have betrayed me, which is something that happen.
The use of the minus is also total correct [...]
I never said that it wasn't correct, but that, time to time in the long history of the MS-DOS tools, some of them had a fucked behavior and among consequences some simply didn't recognized
-
as parameter prefix.
I have here somewhere in my magic computer cabinet the disks for DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 dusting.
Good for you, and so ? Is this a contest, and if yes, what I win if I found my DOS 3.0 floppy disk ?
All this said, since you sent us back in time, I took another look at the screenshot, and the explanation is in fact obvious ; the error message clearly show that this is not the
expand
command of MS-DOS.
The output should start with a one line description of the tools, then MS copyright. The error message should be "invalid option -F", not "invalid option -- F", and finally the reference to an "--help" command is twice wrong. Firstly because
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have no help screen, and secondly because of the
--
which isn't a MS-DOS prefix. Therefore, the error is in the
path
environment variable.
R. installed (or had installed behind his back) an application that include an
expand
program (a port of GNU tools by example) and, for whatever reason, the path to this application is defined before the path to MS-DOS commands in the
path
environment variable. Therefore, UnRen is simply using the wrong command.
My Win10 is "old school configured" and not in English, so you'll perhaps have to improvise with this :
- Go the the configuration panel ;
- Choose "System" ;
- Choose "Advanced parameters" ;
- Click on "Environment variables" on the bottom of the "advanced parameters" tab which should be the one actually selected ;
- On the "System variable" list (the one on the bottom) search the line "path" and select it ;
- Click on the "modify" button ;
- Search the line "C:\Windows\system32" and select it ;
- Move it to the top of the list ;
- Click on "OK".
It should solve your problem.