Andy Willis wrote:

>Kris Steenhaut wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Don{ald} O. Woodall schreef:
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>> 
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>>>   Where it does not help is when IBM put hundreds of Readonly files in
>>>dozens if directories ten levels down.  In this situation a working
>>>command line program would be far superior.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Maybe Andy's script could help, although I'm in doubt whther it will fix 
>>directories or not.
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>I thought it would get rid of the directory read only attributes but 
>Kris's message here got me interested so I tested it and he is correct.  
>Apparently my script to delete directories works because the readonly on 
>a directory doesn't stop it from getting removed.  Here is the short 
>script to get rid of the files readonly attribute though.
>
>/* Remove readonly attribute recursively */
>/* Define Rexx Functions */
>call RxFuncAdd 'SysFileTree', 'RexxUtil', 'SysFileTree'
>call SysFileTree Arg(1)'\*.*', 'file', 'BSO', '***+*', '***-*'  /* 
>removes readonly bit */
>exit
>
>Andy
>
>  
>
Actually upon further investigation, it looks like we were both right.  
I created a tree 3 levels deep and put files in them all.  I set the 
read only attribute on the files and the directories.  I ran the script 
and it removed the attributes from the files but not the first level 
directory.  It did, however, upon checking remove it from the 
subdirectories.
Andy

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