Peter Knapper wrote to Will Honea on 11-20-1999

PK> Hi Will,
PK> 
PK> 
PK>  WH> attrib /s /a:d -a c:\*
PK> 
PK>  WH> Try that on your drives and see if it revives
PK>  WH> the program.  Long shot but...
PK> 
PK> I am runing W4 FP9 here and the online help and attrib /? 
PK> dont show the /a:d or -a options. Are these undocumented or 
PK> a result of a later fixpak?....pk.

FP11 fixed the directory attributes to reflect the true archive status
where before it was ignored (especially by programmers too lazy or
indifferent to do it right).  As a result a lot of programs couldn't
see directories with the archive bit set.

Hmmm.... attrib /? shows the +- A

  +R or -R     Sets or cancels the read-only attribute.
  +S or -S     Sets or cancels the system file attribute.
  +H or -H     Sets or cancels the hidden file attribute.
  +A or -A     Sets or cancels the archive file attribute.
  drive:\path  Specifies the drive and directory.
  filename     Specifies the file you want to change.
  /S           Processes all subdirectories.

And dir /? shows the /a:? syntax but I don't see where it merges. 
Gotta look.  Anyway, with FP9 this is all academic.  Any chance you're
hitting one of the oddball >2.1gb drive problems with Ispell?

BTW, a lot of your posts have been coming through in duplicate lately.

Will Honea 
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