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Buddy Donnelly wrote:
> 
> 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.

Did I get a reply to you on this Buddy? Just in case...

There are object settings that can be set to make any object undeletable
and unmoveable under the WPS. You can reset them to YES or NO with a
line of rexx like this.

rc = SysSetObjectData(Fully_Qualified_FileName, 'NOMOVE=NO;NODELETE=NO')


Wayne Swanson
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