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The attributes David is talking about are SOLELY in the DOS/Windows domains. Systems that wish to use the SMB/CIFS protocol typically try to implement the system/hidden/archive attributes in the file permissions (in the case of *NIX). IBM has thoughtfully put the attributes in a separate location than the *NIX file attributes. This is good, because you don't have the Samba "kludge" noted in my earlier message. It does make it harder to determine if a file needs hidden/archive/system. Thus David's question. A system file is an "arbitrary" Windows determination that the file should not be shown to users (re. default installation of Windows Explorer) and is a required file to the OS. A hidden file is another arbitrary determination that the file owner can elect to keep hidden from other user's view. The archive attribute means the file has been changed or created since the last (DOS) backup. This is if the backup program is told to clear the archive bit on successful file save. Access control lists are totally different. They determine which people or groups of people have access to a file. HTH, Loyd -----Original Message----- From: James Rich [mailto:james@eaerich.com] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 1:22 PM To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com' Subject: RE: Qp0lSetAttr()--Set Attributes On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Leland, David wrote: > I'm not looking for a command to change authorities of IFS files, I'm > looking for a way to change any of the 4 attributes of an IFS file - > "Read-only", "Archive", "Hidden" and "System". Just like the DOS ATTRIB > command or the Qp0lSetAttr API let you do. And I need to be able to do this > in a batch job (not thru Client Access or Operations Navigator). Anyone care to tell me what these attributes are? How is the "read-only" attribute different than: -r--r--r-- 1 james users myfile Or what the heck is a "system" file? How is a "hidden" file different than a file with filename beginning with a '.'? I guess archive means "back up this file", but what the heck is such an attribute doing on the file instead of the backup settings? Are these attributes similar to ACLs? James Rich james@eaerich.com
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