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Date:	Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:54:12 PST8
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Keeping hidden files off USB drive

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Michael Rakijas wrote:

>>You hand OS/2 a DOS drive and you get one or both of those files. I
>>go to real DOS to get rid of them.
>
> If you mean, go to a machine with Real DOS

Yes, either DRDOS or FREEDOS. Only my laptop does not have DOS, yet,
the OSs on the laptop are HPFS and NTFS, which I cannot at this time
write to from DOS.

> then going to Win98 (my current
> solution) is what I do (remember, you need USB support).

On all my current machines USB is native under DOS.

> I'd like something with a little less hassle.

There is no OS less hassle, or quicker to boot than DOS.

> If you mean, go to a DOS box within the existing
> machine, the OS locks the files and prevents you from doing this.

Yes, because it is not "real" DOS. It does have real access to the
hardware.

Ray

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