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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
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- Subject: Re: Fragmented EAs (was Couldn't stick it out...)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.172237.23346@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 17:22:37 GMT
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- In article <28JUL199219455993@summa.tamu.edu> rfs0838@summa.tamu.edu (SCHAFFTER, RODNEY FRANK, JR) writes:
- >
- > No, at least not with PC Tools Compress 7.1- In fact, I remove the
- >hidden/system attributes from _EVERYTHING_ before running it(I return them
- >to their original attributes before rebooting, of course). Rebooting is
- >quicker afterwards, but the speed of opening folders is not.
-
- Everything?!?! If you un-hide the hidden DOS boot files, and
- Compress decides to move them, you'll have a non-bootable DOS
- partition. And if anything is using hidden files as a copy protection
- scheme, and it gets moved, your app will no longer run.
-
- I'd only un-hide files which I hid in the first place. Otherwise,
- there's the danger of things not working afterwards. This is, after
- all, why compression programs don't compress hidden and system files.
-
- > Would it be possible to use EAUTIL to seperate the EA's into a file
- >in each directory, and create a new, logically unfragmented EA DATA.SF
- >file from these smaller files using a disk editor under DOS? (or better yet,
- >using a REXX script)
-
- I'd think you could. I wonder how long this'd take, though.
-
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