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Skriven 2012-11-13 09:34:00 av Holger Granholm (2:20/228)
     Kommentar till en text av Paul Quinn
Ärende: Re: Correction
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In a message dated 11-13-12, Paul Quinn said to Holger Granholm:

Hi Paul.

 PQ>> Strange.  This strikes a chord of a distant memory of mine.

 HG> So it did to me. When I after one of the earlier installations started
 HG> up the computer the second time it wrote "Unlocking locked files".

Well, two problems solved. 1) I created (MD) the directories from the
command line. After checking the OS/2 command reference I should have
used "MD \name". I didn't enter the backslash as I never did in DOS.

Then I checked the root directory and found two files named as the
directories I wanted to create.

Problem 2). Even though the copying of files seemed to work OK from the
command line, nothing went into the specified directories. Now, remember
that file sizes (despite GUI et all) are much smaller than in Windows so
diskettes do a great job for tranferring files. What apparently caused a
problem when copying *.* from them was the rash protected EA DATA . SF
files (note the spaces in the file name) of which there was one on each
diskette and the copy process stopped there without an error message.

So, back to old trustworthy ZTreeBold. Those directory files were erased
and the wanted directories created with just "M" at the root directory.
Now I did also use ZTB to copy the files from the diskettes and
Untagging the EA DATA . SF files I prevented a stop and error message
when the process stumbled on one.

That EA DATA file doesn't do any harm except that it occupies 7 to 15 Kb
space. There's only one method to get rid of it, that's the switch /u
(= unconditional) after the PC-DOS FORMAT command. That switch isn't
available in OS/2's FORMAT command but luckily we can run pure DOS
within OS/2.

PQ>Oh, also you ought to think of getting a pet or a photo of Bill
PQ>Gates, if you can't rely on your grandson to sit still.  :)  You
PQ>need to be able to talk through procedures to someone else.  Trust
PQ>me, doing such a thing really helps to iron out problems.

I keep talking with myself <BG>, it helps a bit.
I don't like cats and like dogs very much but I can't make a real walk
with a dog. It's stop-and-go at every tree and street lamp pole.

Have a nice summer,

Holger

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