🚀 go-pugleaf

In article: <923845689snz@inf-eden.demon.co.uk>  
News$@inf-eden.demon.co.uk (Chris Kennington) writes:
> 
> On Saturday, in article <672669965wnr@ttelmah.demon.co.uk>
>      Roger@ttelmah.demon.co.uk "Roger J.Hamlett" wrote:
> 
> "Other people have posted the 'normal' answers to this. However I 
have
> "seen one 'other' that might apply. I had a machine that behaves as 
> "you describe, and it turned out that somebody had 'fiddled' with 
> "ATTRIB. I printed out the ATTRIB settings for the Windows 
directory, 
> "and compared them with the machine, and changed the attributes 
back 
> "on a couple of files. It then all worked. Fun huh :-)
> 
>     May the little red-bearded and sharp-pronged demons in hell 
receive
>  all those who post tantalizingly obviously intentionally 
provocatively
>  incomplete answers!  (If the cap fits .....)
> 
>     Which files?  Which attributes?
It was a _long_ time ago (W95 OSR2 was brand new then...), and I 
don't remember. I simply dumped a full attrib list onto a printer 
from another machine, and compared the two. I think about three files 
had 'non standard' settings, and I changed them all.
 
>     Is it simply a matter of not setting as r/o any of the files 
that
>  W95 wishes to write to during boot-up?  That would seem reasonable
>  on the designers' part.  Any other requirements would not
> 
>     I found out long since that S & H were not needed anywhere; 
just
>  M$oft conventions.  I have found a very small number of programs 
in
>  which setting attributes (other than R) on some of their 
components
>  would interfere with their behaviour.  Seemed to be trying to
>  protect system administrators against their users.
> 
>     Where's my flak-jacket?  Anyway, I'm almost leaving.  For a 
while.
Sorry I can't give the details, but it caused much annoyance at the 
time, and what was stranger was the fact that 'win' booted the OS 
O.K., since I expected any such change to prevent the OS from loading 
at all. It was only because somebody _mentioned_ having used ATTRIB, 
that I looked at this...

Best Wishes

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