said:
>up) as an MP3 player if OS/2-eCS hidden files are transferred to it, as
>is WP ROOT. SF or EADATA. SF (or whatever). So, I wrote a small batch
>file to strip EA's from and to transfer groups of songs to a named
>folder. I wrote a companion batch file to delete name folders. The bad
>news is that this is quite tedious and noone can use conventional file
>management tools like the WPS to more files around. The good news is
>that this works ... most of the time.
"WP ROOT. SF" is owned by the WPS. It will get created it you use the WPS
to drag and drop files. If you use a PM file manager such as filestar or
fm/2, it will not get created. This file is usually not locked, so you
can delete it from outside the WPS.
"EA DATA. SF" holds the extended attribuites for FAT volumes. Any file
activity is going to create this file if the source file has EAs. It
appears that you batch files are not doing quite the right thing.
If I had this problem, I would post process the USB drive content before
attempting to use it in the player. The processing would use EAUTIL to
strip all the EAs, a file manager to delete "WP ROOT. SF" and dfsee to
delete "EA UTIL. SF". The result would be a FAT filesystem with not
remnants of OS/2 activities. This would be a one-click solution once set
up.
This would allow you to use eCS/OS2 to manage the drive content without
consfusing the player.
Steven
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