Sam , my guess here : MS-DOS 7 and later (the DOS of Win 9x ) uses a special combination of attributes in order to mark the long filename records as such in the directories ; AFAIR , DRDOS has a personnal set of extended attributes ( for file passwording sake ) which could conflict with Micros*ft 's here . Thus DRDOS is confused and doesn't know how to delete the LFNs. It should not behave differently for hard versus floppy disks ; the fact that it did work for you on an occasion should be investigated further , maybe the DRDOS configuration was different , such as file pswds not authorized on that system ?
I haven't had a system running DRDOS for years so these are only half educated guesses ! DRDOS was great at a time and much ahead of MS's , but you know who won that war , I am no supporter of Msft , however beginning with MSDOS 6.x they finally came with a cometitive product which left no niche for DRDOS ;) . ----- Original Message ----- From: Samuel W. Heywood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 7:02 PM Subject: How do I get rid of all this wincrap? > Hey, I just now used a WIN95 machine to copy an LFN to > a floppy. Then I inserted the floppy into my DR-DOS > machine. I used the DR-DOS "del" command to successfully > delete the LFN from my floppy. > > Questions: > > Why doesn't the the DR-DOS "del" command work for deleting > an LFN from my hard drive on a different machine running > DR-DOS? I once had a working Windows 95 installation on > the different machine but now the machine has been fixed so > that it will now boot to DR-DOS. I booted from a DR-DOS > system floppy and ran "sys c:" to fix it. To fix it real > good I will have to delete all the LFNs that still remain > on the hard drive from the old Windows 95 installation. > The DR-DOS "del" command doesn't work for deleting the LFNs > on the hard drive. Why? > > Even when I boot from a floppy with a WIN95 system disk, > even the WIN95 version of DOS will not delete the LFNs. Why? > > Now I have a halfway fixed machine. As I am an optimist, > I suppose that is better than having one that is halfway broken. > > Windows 95 seems to be just like a very bad virus that is > very hard to get rid of. > > Sam Heywood > -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ >
