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In article <rpm.5.000B49CD@sys.uea.ac.uk>, rpm@sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard May) writes:
[...]
 > There are times when this would be useful, for example I tend to copy a lot of 
 > things temporarily from CD to disk, then when I want to delete them, I have to 
 > manually remove the read only flag on each one, before I can dlete them.
 > 
 > If you were to do this it would have to give a reduced notebook that only gave 
 > options that made sense to be changed globally.
 > 
 > I saw a very nice util on the Archimedies that could be configured with a 
 > particular set of file attributes, and then any files who's icons were dragged 
 > onto it, would have their attributes set to those off the utils. config.. Ie, 
 > this could be used to clear the raed only flag of any file dropped on it. Is 
 > there a util for OS/2 to do this, any more to the point it would be nice if a 
 > future OS/2 included this.

The change-attribute-of-anything-dragged-to-it object is easy to implement
under os/2 today:

1.  Make a new program object.  This can be done by dragging a program template
    from the template folder.

2.  Set the "Path and filename" to "x:\os2\attrib.exe"   x: is the drive where
    os/2 is installed. 

3.  Set "Parameters" to "-r %*"  -r removes the read-only attribute. %* means
    substitute the full pathname of anything dropped onto this object.

That's it.  Now you have an object which removes the read-only attribute
from anything dropped on it.  You can drop several files on it simultaneously.
Dropping a directory will only affect the directory itself, not the files in
the directory.

If you want this remove-readonly object to be a menu option for all files,
then go to the association page of the object's settings.  Add the name *
This will allow you to select a bunch of files, bring up their collective
menu, and select open->removeRO for all of them.


Hope you find this helpful.

Helge Hafting