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- From: ojtv@zombie.oulu.fi (Olli Vuolteenaho)
- Subject: Something interesting ... :-)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.164121.23208@ousrvr.oulu.fi>
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- Organization: University of Oulu, Finland
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- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 16:41:21 GMT
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- This is another try with a question that didn't get any takers (that's
- why the silly title, I apologize).
-
- Suppose some program changes the "apparent" name (the name that you
- see when you double-click drive C icon, for example) of a directory
- (I don't know how it happens but it does, believe me). In this particular
- case the c:\os2 was changed to c:\SaveFile apparently by cpyini since
- the latter name was given as the argument for cpyini. Now when you look
- at the tree view of drive C, you see TWO directories named SaveFile (and
- both at the same level of the directory hierarchy). But when you look
- at drive C in the details view you see that while the "Name" of the directory
- we are interested in is C:\SaveFile the "Real Name" still is C:\OS2.
-
- The system works OK, so it is mainly a cosmetical problem. But imagine that
- after a while you could end up having nothing but SaveFile (or whatever)
- directories - not very pretty or practical.
-
- And now comes my question: How can you change the name of the newly born
- C:\SaveFile back to C:\OS2? If you try the usual methods (alt-left click
- then edit, or editing the "general tab" from the directory notebook) you
- only get a statement "C:\OS2 is currently in use by another program" and
- a flat refusal to do anything. More generally, is there a nice way of
- changing properties of WPS if the the system is currently using them. For
- files (like display.dll), booting to command line works but in the case
- of WPS you have to get WPS running before you have the properties you
- want to change, right? Maybe fiddling with EAs would do the trick - scary
- idea that, though.
-
- Any ideas?. Thank you in advance!
-
- Olli
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