01-24-05  16:52, Nancy Backus told Jean Parrot about Re: ZOC !

 Well, how do, Nancy?

 NB> Someone (was it Bruce?) was saying something about something making
 NB> one of your BW files, the one that keeps track of your flags/marks etc,
 NB> a read-only file.  That makes a lot of sense as to why your new flags
 NB> and marks wouldn't be written to that file when you exit out of BW like
 NB> they should be.  What doesn't make sense is WHY the file would end up
 NB> being given the Read-Only attribute...  But, I bet if you could track
 NB> down for sure what is doing it, you'd be most of the way there to
 NB> fixing it? 

Now, isn't there a PKZIP switch that will force a file to be rewritten, or
some such? Just a quick look at pkzip's help file, (Just the screen display
when you don't include required fields. I've long ago deleted the text
files.) I see the -j, mask/don't mask attributes. Might that have some
bearing? Seamed to me that he might have an environment variable set that
to a value other than the default. Other than an ANSII sequence bombing his
file attributes...

You're the DOS diva here. Maybe his pkzip command could branch to a batch
call, where first the "attrib -h filename.???" could work? DON'T
quote me on the syntax! I've been weened from DOS since Windows stoped
providing a help executable.
 NB> It IS a puzzlement!

I did just find that Telemate's DOS command allows a recursive scroll of
your command history. Just like *NIX! Nice... 



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