RE: Mass removal of Archive bits

["Myron Gochnauer" goch@xxxxxxxx]

Right. The procedure I suggested does not work for the root directory.

That's what I get for coming to class late!

I agree about the convenience of DOS, but only if DOS manipulation is your
psychological default, as it was for me until fairly recently. Now I have
used Windows Explorer, DOpus and File/Open dialogues so frequently that they
have become the approach I can do on autopilot. Unfortunately, I now have to
think "how do I do this?" at the DOS level except for common tasks.
Curiously, though, some of the original XyWrite II+ function key assignments
are still firmly attached to my fingers. And I'm sure I'll go to my grave
pressing F5 to clear the command line...

Myron

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Holmgren [mailto:holmgren@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 2:43 PM
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Mass removal of Archive bits


** Reply to message from "Myron Gochnauer"  on Tue, 2 Mar 2004
09:07:31 -0400


> I haven't followed all of the postings on this topic, although I did
> download RH's utility. (It works fine with Win2K.)

> I'm not sure why any of this was necessary. When I want to change the
> attributes of all the files in a subdirectory, I just use Windows
Explorer.

First of all, we're not talking about files, we're talking about
directories --
ONLY. XyWrite has no problem with archived files -- in fact, XyWrite turns
_on_ the archive bit when it saves a file. Second, I'm not sure why your
(to
my mind laborious) procedure is better, when a simple DOS command does the
whole job, boom. Third, in NT, how do you get Explorer to change the
archive
bit of the _root_ directory and "all subfolders and files"? I don't see
that
option -- and anyway, although the option does exist for subdirectories
below
the root, we don't _want_ to put the archive bit on all files -- only on
directories. That's the tricky part. Fourth, if you've got 6,270
directories
on C: alone, as I do, one simple DOS BATch file is the fastest, most
economical
alternative, by far -- wouldn't you agree? If I don't want to slam the
archive
bit on all files, then I'd have to use Explorer 6,270 times!

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Robert Holmgren
holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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