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Buddy Donnelly wrote:
> 
> I have found, and reported over the last year or so, several distribution
> file EXEs which produced very strange behaviour under the WPS.
> 
> In each case, the files seemed to have come from programmers using Open32.
> That was as far as I could get on my own, and no one else seemed to have
> anything further.
> 
> The files in question would not display their icons under FileStar/2, and
> were virtually undeletable (or movable) from the directories they were
> unzipped or otherwise installed into. I always had to boot to a pure
> command line and DEL them.
> 
> Among these files were a Netscape202 build I snagged off testcase, a
> WordPro96 update that came straight out of a Lotus distribution, some Star
> Office files and some SS97 files, both of which I've disposed of here. They
> were all EXEs, and none showed any attributes or EAs that appeared to be
> causing it, to my limited view.
> 
> The EXEs all appeared to work normally, which is to say, adequately. Open32
> does not produce code optimized for *my* machine, and I'm going to be doing
> my best to avoid using it if possible.
> 
> I'd love to know what can make such an EXE unmovable under PMSHELL, but
> easily movable otherwise. Might be useful, somehow.

There is a "NoMove" and a "NoDelete" property for Objects under the WPS.
Maybe you could try a script that sets these two parameters to "NO" for
the files in question and try it again.

Then let us know if that was it.

Wayne Swanson
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