Path: utzoo!yunexus!maccs!cs4g6ag
From: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Dumb/easy question
Message-ID: <25567B88.26092@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 7 Nov 89 06:51:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: maccs.25567B88.26092
References: <140@mscf.med.upenn.edu> <4376@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <954@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn)
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
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In article <954@castle.ed.ac.uk> djm@castle.ed.ac.uk (D Murphy) writes:
$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.
$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.

   It depends on the version of ATTRIB you have.  I'm using MS-DOS 3.20
and it will only allow me to twiddle the Read-only and Archive bits.
However, I seem to recall having seen in the documentation for a later
version (either PC-DOS 3.30 or PC-DOS 4.01, but MS-DOS should be the
same) that you can change all of the four common attributes (R,A, Hidden,
and System).

   I could be wrong, though ... I have PC-DOS 3.30 lying around here, but
I don't feel like rebooting just to try it.  Please, no e-mail telling
me if I'm right or wrong, I couldn't care less personally.
-- 
Stephen M. Dunn                               cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
          <std_disclaimer.h> = "\nI'm only an undergraduate!!!\n";
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