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From: djm@castle.ed.ac.uk (D Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Dumb/easy question
Message-ID: <954@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 3 Nov 89 11:42:18 GMT
References: <140@mscf.med.upenn.edu> <4376@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Reply-To: djm@castle.ed.ac.uk (D Murphy)
Organization: Edinburgh University Chemistry
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In article <4376@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> unkydave@shumv1.ncsu.edu (David Bank) writes:
>         If you don;t have and/or can't afford such a program or
>one like it, you can use the DOS program ATTRIB to alter the file
>attribute bits and make it a non-Hidden file and then erase it normally.
>
>Unky Dave
>unkydave@shumv1.ncsu.edu
>> 

Umm - I'm not sure this is true. I think ATTRIB will only allow you to
change the read-only and archive bits. If you try using, say, ATTRIB +H 
it doesn't hide the file.


Murff..... "If you'd thought about moving you would't bother to stop."