Some senseless babbling from Peter Knapper to All
on 11-20-99  13:36 about Copying files and EA's......

 PK> Hi Folks,

 PK> I wanted to automate the copying of files from one machine to another
 PK> using REXX when a thought struck me. 

 PK> If a file has EA's, does the OS/2 COPY command copy EA's - 
 PK> 1. Between a file copied to the SAME partition?
 PK> 2. Between partitions/drives on the same machine?
 PK> 3. Between machines connected using OS/2 Peer Services? 

 PK> I would expect 1 to be YES, 2 to be YES, 3 possibly...

 PK> Can similar/better functionality be performed using REXX commands,
 PK> ensuring that EA's are also copied in each of the above situations?

 PK> NB: I do not want to split off EA's and re-combine them later...

The answer to question one is always "yes".

For question two, it depends on whether or not the destination file system
supports EA's.  For FAT and HPFS, there are no problems.  But if you're
using a different file system through an IFS, it depends entirely on what
that file system supports.

Question three has the same answer, though beyond the file system on the
remote machine, the LAN protocol needs to provide for such a need.
Between two OS/2 machines, EA's are preserved without incident.  Between
OS/2 and a Win95 machine, no EA preservation, even though that machine
booted to OS/2 would support EA's.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


... Hey Billy, are you sure they wrote Windoze in Basic?

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