(Excerpts from a message dated 10-25-99, Linda Proulx to Murray Lesser,
  original topic "Phoenix):

-=> Murray Lesser wrote to Will Honea <=-

 ML>     Does it recover the EAs?  v 1.33 doesn't.  GammaTech UnDelete does.

LP>What are EAs?

    OS/2 files may include additional information about the file usage
in "Extended Attributes" which are "attached" to the file itself and are
retrieved automatically with it.  For example: when you write a REXX
program and run it for the first time, the "tokenized" version of the
program is stored in the EA for that file, so it is not necessary to go
through the process again the next time you run that program.  One of
the dangers of using a DOS defrag program on an OS/2 FAT file partition
is that the EAs may be lost in the process.  If not lost, they are not
moved to where they should be for best performance, so that the
partition is still effectively fragmented after you finish the
operation.

    If I might make a suggestion:  You are never going to learn all you
should know by the process you are using: throwing out a question every
time you run across an OS/2 term you don't recognize.  I suggest that
either you get a good textbook about OS/2, or (better yet) install it,
run the tutorial, and try out some of the things you are worrying about.
If you are installing OS/2 on a system that already contains some other
operating system, make a good system backup of your present
configuration before you start.

    Of course, the correspondence you initiate does put some life back
into this old echo .

    Regards,

        --Murray

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