From: "Niels Petersen" 
Reply-To: NielsP{at}bigfoot.com, Fidonet AVtech Echo 

Join the Club :-(

My cleanup bat for all TMP WBK etc files on ALL drives on the network will
freeze W98.
So I run it from the old 386/33 running DOS 6 WfWG and it works a treat.
DOS 8 is the problem. It also sets the a attribute on any file that is used
(as opposed to altered) bastards....

Cheers
Niels


-----Original Message-----
From: fidoavtech-bounces{at}videocam.net.au
[mailto:fidoavtech-bounces{at}videocam.net.au]On Behalf Of Bob Lawrence
Sent: Saturday, 14 February 2004 12:11
To: fidoavtech{at}videocam.net.au
Subject: Bloody windows!


Hi all,
       the philosophy of Bill Gates really annoys me!

 On one hand he now admits that there's a backdoor into Windows that
makes it totally vulnerable to viruses on the internet, blaming it on
his users for not having an effective firewall when M$ can't even
write one that works (the only firewall is Linux)... while on the
other hand he makes it basically impossible to do anything a little
different.

 I have a nice little program that wipes my temporary drive. With
gigabyte drives, you can never find anything, so all my backups and
worki in progressgo to me 32Mb TMP FAT-formatted drive, and if horror
of horrorsWindows or Word rolsl over (fairly common, btw) then the
last little bit is somewhere there on the 32Mb and I can use Norton
diskedit to dig it out and restore it.

 Every so often, I wipe it, FAT, files, everything... usign a direct
disk write and Int 26 which is really fast. It takes 5 seconds... all
gone. So far, when I want to wipe the drive, I just drop back to Win31
and DOS6, but this mornign I got the urge to adapt it for universal
use. It works nicely under Win31 but Win98 has the new Gates'
philosophy: "Thou shalt not do things that M$ deems unnecessary."

 I know about lock and unlock which *allegedly* allows direct disk
writes, and I've just finished rewriting my nice little utility to do
that when I'm in Win98... nope.

 Even having locked the bastard (for some reason, M$ uses "lock" when
they mean unlock, and "unlock" to lock it again), Windows produces an
error telling me I'm using an old utility that might stuff the drive.
For god's sake... that's what it's for! I *want* to stuff the drive,
but bloody Win98 won't let me!

 I *know* I can write it in Win98 using Delphi and a Win API call to
write direct, but then it won't work in Win31 or DOS.

 I'm stuffed. I can't think of a way to get past Win98.

Regards,
Bob



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