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From: TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
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Subject: Changing file types with FM
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Date: 13 Nov 90 05:36:00 GMT
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Could someone explain when the file type for a directory can be changed
and when it can't?  (I don't mean when it is OK -- in theory it never is
OK -- but when will GS/OS let you?)  I wanted to use Hartkopf's File
Manager to temporarily change the type of a directory to something else
so I could put it on the desktop.  (a known, but not well-known,
kludge.)  Something wouldn't let it happen, i.e., I couldn't change the
type.  HOWEVER, if I took something that already was a file (e.g., TXT)
and tried to change its type to Folder, that worked.  IT ALSO THEN
WORKED to change the type of that "folder" back to TXT (or anything
else.)  Hartkopf is stumped too.  What made my second "folder" different
from the first that allowed its type to be changed but not the first
one's?

TMPLee@dockmaster.ncsc.mil