On Fri, 28 Jun 2002 12:58:00 +0200, Michal H. Tyc wrote: >> From the symptoms I guess that the file's directory entry had > nonzero values in the reserved fields, which DR-DOS uses for storing > passwords and access rights. > If you unpacked that archive under Windows, these fields could have > been polluted with creation and last access date, which were introduced > by Microsoft in Win9x, long time AFTER they were already defined > by DR. Typical M$ tactics. > If you hadn't ever used Windows to access your HD, I have no idea what > happened. Is that problem reproducible? (i.e., did you try to > unpack the archive again?) If so, could you send me a copy via > private mail -- I would be greatly interested.
I downloaded the zipped archive UNRAR250.ZIP by using Arachne running on a pure DOS machine, no Windows installed, DOS version DR-DOS 7.02. Also I unpacked the archive in a directory on my hardrive in the same machine. I just now tried to reproduce the problem on a floppy disk. I found that the "dir" command would list the file only by using the wildcard combination "dir beos????.*". As I recall I had used this wildcard combination previously when the file was on a directory on my hardrive. DOS failed to list it the first time. When the file was on my floppy drive I found that I was able to delete the file by using the command "del beos????.*". Curiously I was unable to "undelete" it. If you are interested in playing with this file archive you can probably find it by doing a google search. If you have any problem in finding where to download it, I will email it to you. The file name is UNRAR250.ZIP, 72,451 bytes. My copy of the file archive appears to have since become corrupted for some unknown reason. When I tried about three times to unzip it on a directory on my floppy drive I got errors from PKUNZIP telling me that two of the files failed CRC checks. I did not get any error messages when I unzipped the archive the firat time on a directory on my hard drive. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
