Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/07/00:47:24
On Wed, 5 Feb 1997 Bjorn DOT Simonsen AT student DOT uib DOT no wrote:
> > You boot from a boot floppy, change to C: (or whatever) and fix it,
> > just like with OS/2.
>
> Or you prevent it, with DOS:
> Attrib +r +h config.sys
> ren attrib.exe somename.xyz
> (and you rembember somename.xyz or carry attrib.exe with you)
Doesn't always work, I fought long and hard with several VBasic install
programs over this, they insisted on sticking earlier versions of the
VBX's I had on hand, and I had to keep retrieving them from the archive.
I did a +R+H, but they _violated_ good programming pratice, removed the
flags, and overwrote the files! And whenever that happened, I proceeded
to send a nasty letter to the author, deleted his files, and unzipped my
safety backup. (never did get any reply's about this.)
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