31 Jan
2008
31 Jan
'08
11:39 a.m.
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Chris M wrote:
is there any way to make these visible? I'm trying
to
do something funky, and for some reason XP won't
*visualize* the hidden files on a boot disk
(bootdisk.com). I tried unhiding them with attrib, but
it tells me uh uh. What to do? Yes I did change my
folder option to display hidden files, but to no avail.
Back in the days when those files were on-topic, . . .
IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS were S_ystem, H_idden, AND R_ead-only.
XP might not let you turn off the Hidden bit unless you also turn off the
System and Read-only bits.
ATTRIB foo -S -H -R
You can floppy boot DOS 7 from Win98, and get a more familiar/cooperative
working environment.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com