Does Shell Attrib - r work in Windows 2000?

[Mike Doty]

Have a user that when they run my installation
program the files won't extract to their
folder. This program has worked for years.
It uses a
Shell Attrib -r

On the internet the install.exe program is placed
into a WinZip self-extracting exe that calls it.
Does ATTRIB work in Windows 2000?




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[Michael Mattias]

Does ATTRIB work in Windows 2000?

If it doesn't, the PB/DOS ATTRIB statement might.

MCM



[This message has been edited by Michael Mattias (edited July 23, 2002).]

[Tom Hanlin]

Does ATTRIB work in Windows 2000?

Yes.

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PowerBASIC Staff

[keith shelton]

I know that in Win XP if you try to change the attributes from read only
to normal it will not work in some folders. If the os thinks the folder
you want to use is a system folder it will not let you change it.
Keith Shelton

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[Mike Doty]

Since Attrib works with 2000, it may be that the installation
program was copied into the destination folder. This could
cause Attrib to fail when it finds install.exe open.
This would leave all remaining files that need to be
copied over read only preventing the ARJ self-extracting file
within the archive to prevent copying over files.

Now looking at ARJ and PKZIP options for writing over
read only files in case Attrib fails.

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[Jim Gillem]

I used ATTRIB -R just yesterday at the WIN2K command prompt and
it let my CD-R FILES work just fine.

Jim Gillem - magnumsoft.com

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[Eric Pearson]

I see from the Subject that you are SHELLing to ATTRIB. You probably need to shell to command.com, as shown in the PB Help File

[later]

Oops, sorry, I forgot this was a PB/DOS question. Maybe worth a try, however, because of the changes in the Windows 2000 console.

SHELL ENVIRON$("COMSPEC") + " ATTRIB (etc.)

-- Eric


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[This message has been edited by Eric Pearson (edited July 24, 2002).]

[Tom Hanlin]

That's a good point. More like so:

SHELL ENVIRON$("COMSPEC") + " /c ATTRIB parameters"

It would be worth scanning the system to be sure if you're running the
ATTRIB command provided by Win2k, or an older version copied from some
previous operating system.

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PowerBASIC Staff