OS/2 Shareware BBS: 18 REXX/18-REXX.zip/listea.zip/LISTEA.DOC

Text File | 1995-04-02 | 2KB | 35 lines

           LISTEA.CMD - List All Extended Attributes
             1994-95 by Copyright C F S Nevada, Inc.

This program will build a file, LISTEA.TXT, in the same directory
where the program resides. This file will contain a text listing of
all of the Extended Attributes (in both hex and character notation)
for all local drive directories and files in the object system
except that REXX metafiles and .ICON extended attributes are not
detailed.

Two temporary work files, SYS001 and SYS002, area created in the
same directory where LISTEA.CMD resides while the program is
running. They are erased on completion.

This program may take a considerable amount of time to run
depending on the speed of the system and the number of files to be
processed. Drives which are not ready or drives with file systems
other than FAT or HPFS (e.g. CDFS - CDROMs) are ignored. Floppy
drives which are ready and contain extended attributes will be
included.

The file created by this program, LISTEA.TXT, will be large (2 MB
to 3 MB) and can be viewed with any viewer or ASCII editor capable
of handling large files. Redundant or meaningless information is
omitted where possible. For example, any extended attribute which
contains icon data shows just the name with the contents being
ignored. Also, beginning with Version 1.3 of LISTEA, all
?:\OS2\ARCHIVE directories are ignored. The icon related EAs show
header information where applicable with the icon data being
ignored.

An index list of the EA names encountered is included at the end of
LISTEA.TXT with the name of one file which contains this EA. Also,
the number of times that that EA type occurs in the system is
indicated.