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Date:	Sun, 4 May 2003 02:07:22 PDT7
From:	"Gary Wong" <gary.wong@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
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I thought the DIR command you're referring to is if he has a HPFS (maybe also JFS?)
drive. On a FAT drive you don't see the EA column.

On Sat, 3 May 2003 08:51:22 PDT7, Steven Levine wrote:

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>In <200305022315.0540184.6@scoug.com>, on 05/02/03
> at 11:15 PM, jack.huffman@worldnet.att.net said:
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>>I thought EA's were essential to the operation of OS/2. Is my concern
>
>There are essential only for some types of operations. Consider that
>folks have been using reading files off CDs with OS/2 for a long time.
>
>>about losing them when copying from a CD-RW drive to my hard drive making
>>a mountain out of a molehill?
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>I think you are attacking the problem from the wrong direction. You
>simply need to understand that if you use ZTBold to copy the content of a
>hard drive to a CD, reformat the drive or delete the files and then copy
>the content back, the EAs will be lost. If this was your boot drive, it
>probably will not boot. If this is a data drive, you might lose some file
>associations and a double click or a data file might no longer open the
>correct application. If the orginal file did not have EAs, you might see
>no differences.
>
>Not every file has EAs. To see this, do:
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> dir
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>from the command line. The number in the right column is the EA size.
>Many files do not have EAs because they are not used in a way to requires
>them.
>
>The easy way to experiment with this is to back up your system and use
>Unimaint, Henk Kelder's EA Browser or EAUTIL to delete the EAs from some
>files and see what breaks. It's going to vary.
>
>What's really important is to understand that not all backup methods will
>preserve EAs and to choose one that does when doing a full backup.
>
>Steven
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