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Date:	Thu, 26 Jul 2001 14:51:43 PDT
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Weird disk access problem

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In <3B60791D.2499@peterskye.com>, on 07/26/01
at 01:10 PM, Peter Skye said:

>I thought the EA's were stored on the drive. If they're stored on the

You are correct. This is why CD's don't have EA's. The native CD file
system does not support them and IBM didn't bother to implement code in
CDFS.IFS to hack them in as was done for FAT drives.

>You _should_ have a "WP ROOT. SF" file in the root of your HPFS drives.

You _may_ have a "WP ROOT. SF." It is optional and holds the EA's for the
root directory. The WPS will create it as needed. For some unknown
reason the HPFS designer's decided that there would never be a need for
the root to have EA's so there's not place to store them in the native
HPFS file system.

>the drive folder's attributes. When I deleted "WP ROOT. SF" from my test
>drive, the icons in the folders reverted back to their "default"
>positions and sortings.

It stores what would be the .CLASSINFO EA which can include an icon
setting. Unfortunately Unimaint is not quite smart enough to let you look
at it with its EA view options.

Steven

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