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Date:	Fri, 2 May 2003 23:15:06 PDT7
From:	jack.huffman@worldnet.att.net
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: files not found

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In , on 05/02/2003
at 09:13 PM, "Steven Levine" said:

Steven,

The Warp 4 on line info about EA's says only that they are information
the program or operating system attaches to a file in text, binary, etc.
format. I have read that OS/2 uses EA's to store information (like INI
files do) about the name of the application, type of info in a file, icon
location in a folder as .TYPE, .CLASSINFO, .ICONPOS but that a programmer
can put other info in a file including what software can update it. I
have read that it is possible to view, modify, back up and restore EA's.
I also have read that EA's can be separated from and rejoined to a file.

I thought EA's were essential to the operation of OS/2. Is my concern
about losing them when copying from a CD-RW drive to my hard drive making
a mountain out of a molehill?

Please give me a lesson about how essential they are and what happens if
they are discarded or tell me where I can find that information.

Thanks,

Jack
Am I

Jack

>In <200305022054.4639835.12@scoug.com>, on 05/02/03
> at 08:54 PM, jack.huffman@worldnet.att.net said:

>>All of my hard disk partitions are formatted for HPFS. Will ZTBold
>>restore the EA's when I copy a file from a CD=RW to one of them?

>No. How can it? There are no EAs on the CD that could be restored.

>The reason a backup program like BA2 can restore the EAs when the backup
>set is stored on CD is because BA2 store the EAs inside a file. This
>means it does not matter whether or not the CD file system support EAs.

>Steven

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