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On Thu, 8 Apr 1999 23:12:56, Wayne Swanson <psoft@tech-center.com> wrote:

> 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...

No, I don't have any of them on the system right now, but I'll see what I 
can find and do some testing.

It's intriguing, but I can't imagine why any sane programmer would have 
made their objects NOMOVE or NODELETE in these instances. But let's see.

> 
> 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')
> 

Good luck,

Buddy

Buddy Donnelly
donnelly@tampabay.rr.com