On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Tom Oehser wrote:
>
> > I am looking into a _general_ solution to backing up Win systems to CDs
> > from tomsrtbt. The solution discussed in list archive (tarring the vfat
> > files into archive / copying directly to CD) seems not to be sufficient,
> > as it may break some programs that do rely on system/hidden attributes
> > (not that I can think of an example, but in theory these could exist) etc.
>
> I have never run into such a problem on a modern Windows ( > 3.1 ) system.
> I think they have stopped using such stuff in such a way that it breaks if
> those attributes are cleared, if they ever did. You can do a recursive
> chattr -S -R -A -H or whatever on Windows without anything breaking. I'm
> sure there is a straightforward way to archive that, too. But, until I'm
> confronted with a case where it fails, I won't worry about it.
Wrong, there's just _one_ place where there's a problem, the
C:\windows\fonts directory must have it's system bit set.
If not explorer doesn't see it right and won't properly
install/remove fonts. In fact I think there's some general
weirdness if certain font files don't have their hidden bits
set too.
Otherwise you're right, nobody cares.
--
Rob. (Robert de Bath <robert$ @ debath.co.uk>)
<http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday>
