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In article <25@necbsd.NEC.COM>, gay@necbsd.NEC.COM (John Gay) writes:
> 
> I would like to warn anyone that has or is about to receive the
> update of Microsoft MASM 5.1. Do not use the install program
> included on the main disk. I ran this program to install MASM 5.1
> and accessories on my hard disk drive D:. Well today (1 day later) I
> discovered a new hidden directory on drive C: (yes C:) with the name
> DELETED. This directory contained the files DELETED.000 and INDEX. 
> The directory was also three levels underneath some other
> directories. The file DELETED.000 contained another file that I had
> been working on previously (but not for a couple of days). My file
> was apparantly not hurt, just a little scary for me. The file INDEX
> seemed to be the directory structure that MASM was installed with. I
> found out about this quite accidently by running a disk optimizer
> that reported there was 1 hidden directory.
> 
> A friend that has also tried to install MASM 5.1 with the setup
> program has come across a similar experience, except that the program
> installed some of MASM's files in the wrong places and corrupted some
> of his executables. Those corrupted include (but probably are not
> limited to) lib.exe and make.exe.

Don't worry about this. No copy protection or anything dangerous is
going on. I'm not sure, but I don't believe the install program is
responsible for this. The hidden DELETED directories are backup
copies of something you're editing or deleting.

M.EXE (the Microsoft Editor) may create these, If so there should be
a TOOLS.INI switch to disable it. RM.EXE (a remove utility) is
probably the program creating these -- it's making a backup of a file
before deleting it. I don't use it, so am not sure if there is a way
to disable RM from creating these, maybe a TOOLS.INI switch, maybe 
"set DELETED=NONE". A sure-fire way is not to use RM.EXE.

Anyway, they are hidden directories called DELETED created in your
current directory, which has an INDEX file and files DELETED.nnn, one
for each files that is placed there. The INDEX knows what the
DELETED.nnn files were originally called. EXP.EXE (an expunge
utility) will delete the files from these hidden directories.
UNDEL.EXE (an undelete utility) will takes the DELETED "backup" copy
and restore it to it's previous name/location. Information about
these tools are in the documentation, which I don't have nearby to
refer to...

I'm not sure what kind of problems your friend is running into, perhaps
he has installed some OS/2 protected mode programs and it trying to run
them under MS-DOS. I'd suggest you call our product support group at
(206) 882-8089 for more help on this.

-Lee
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