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Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 17:59:51 +1000
From: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Sam and Bill mystery series
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if you want the answer from boyd & boof.

attrib -s -h

<do your stuff>

attrib +s +h

have a beer.

brucee

On 5/28/05, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> wrote:
> >> Windows (9pm) sam can't write back changes to C:/boot.ini. notepad can=
.
> > =80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80 Attributes =80=80=80=80=80=80=
=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80
> > =80              boot.ini               =80
> > =80 [x] Read only                       =80
> > =80 [x] Archive                         =80
> > =80 [x] Hidden                          =80
> > =80 [x] System                          =80
> > =80 [ ] Compressed                      =80
> > =80 [ ] Encrypted                       =80
> >
> > read-only attr does his job fine. (win2k, FAR manager)
>=20
> So notepad is broken.  I am shocked!
>=20
>