Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!boulder!seri!wind55!marshall From: marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: SUBST interfers w/ permanent Swapfile creation Keywords: windows swapfile subst Message-ID: Date: 13 Jun 90 16:08:26 GMT References: Sender: news@seri.gov (news [NO CHARGE]) Distribution: na Organization: Solar Energy Research Institute Lines: 32 I previously wrote: >While I had him on the phone, I asked him if the swapfile would have its >archive bit set upon exit from Windows. He didn't know. The reason I >asked is that four days a week I do incremental backups onto floppies. I >didn't want the DOS BACKUP program to try and back it up onto 15 >floppies. Anyway, after leaving Windows, I looked at the file. It's >called 386SPART.PAR and it's in the root of drive C. It had the System >and Hidden flags set, but not the Archive bit. It looks like it won't >give me a problem. If it did, I would have modified my BYE program to >reset the bit whenever I shutdown my system. Well, I went to do an incremental backup to floppies this AM and sure enough, it tried to backup up that huge swapfile. I modified my automatic backup program to turn off the archive bit with the ATTRIB command. It wouldn't work - file was hidden. So I used an old PD CATT program to reset the system and hidden bits. That fixed it. Win3 still works fine too. I can't use CATT in my program because it's interactive - otherwise it would have been better. I guess if I had that CATT program from PC Mag, then I could have left the file as system-hidden. I guess there is little reason to backup the swapfile even when I'm going to tape. I doubt if there is anything useful in it. I use SY-TOS, so I can tell it to exclude the swapfile from the backup. I'll find out if it works Friday when I'm scheduled for a full backup. g -- Marshall L. Buhl, Jr. EMAIL: marshall@seri.gov Senior Computer Engineer VOICE: (303)231-1014 Wind Research Branch 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401-3393 Solar Energy Research Institute Solar - safe energy for a healthy future