Setting attributes of MS-DOS files

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From: Matthew Lee
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 1990 22:53

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I am trying to set bit 6 of the attribute byte of a DOS file.  I want to be 
able to flag a set of files and since bits 0-5 are used for the read-only, 
hidden, ... attributes and bit 7 is used by Novell Netware, bit 6 seems 
the least likely to conflict with other things. However, my attempts to use
the C "_chmod" function and to use DOS interrupt 21, function 43 have been
unsuccessful, I don't think they expect anybody to do this.

Can anybody help me out with this?

Thanks
Matthew Lee
leemc@csri.toronto.edu

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From: leemc@csri.toronto.edu (Matthew Lee)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Setting attributes of MS-DOS files
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