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In article <PREECE.90Apr4171214@etude.urbana.mcd.mot.com> preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Scott E. Preece) writes:
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>1. Which standard commands and utilities know about and preserve extended
>attributes?
All utilities supplied with OS|2 1.2 seem to preserve EAs, most
importantly: COPY and XCOPY as well as the File Manager.
If you need to copy a file to a system that does NOT preserve EAs,
you can use EAUTIL to split or combine the EAs into a visible file.

>2. The API seems to only allow you to pull out a list of specified
>attributes; is there a way of retrieving the whole list, without
>specifying the names in advance?  If not, how would you duplicate a
>file, preserving its attributes, without knowing in advance what
>attributes it had?
The family API function DosEnumAttribute enumerates all extended attributes
for a specified file, however the DosCopy API provides a simpler method
of duplicating a file (or sub-tree) and preserves extended attributes.
Derek Baum consulting at:
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