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Cc: dosbeta AT calderauk DOT com
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From: "Arkady V.Belousov" <ark AT belous DOT munic DOT msk DOT su>
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 10:46:23 +0300 (MSK)
Organization: Locus
Reply-To: ark AT mos DOT ru
Subject: OpenDOS 7.02b2 bugs
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Hi!

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OpenDOS 7.02b2

        Bugs

1. XCOPY.EXE don't copy attributes of directories (i.e. R/O, Hidden and
   System). This is fatal, for example, for \WIN95\FONTS\ directory, which
   _must_ have System attribute

2. When XCOPY.EXE with /h option tries to replace file with Hidden and
   System attributes without R/O, then (at least, under MS-DOS 6.22 with
   NDOS) XCOPY.EXE with message "...access denied" aborts:

        @echo off
        md c:\temp
        md c:\temp\a
        md c:\temp\b
        echo 123>c:\temp\a\1
        echo 12>c:\temp\a\2
        echo 1>c:\temp\b\1
        attrib +h +s c:\temp\b\1
        c:\util\xcopy/e /h /r /s c:\temp\a c:\temp\b

3. ATTRIB.EXE can't set attributes for directories (I tries reset lost
   after XCOPY.EXE attributes); 4DOS/NDOS's ATTRIB command allow this
   through /d switch

4. When NWCDEX.EXE runs with same options as MSCDEX.EXE (/d:... /m:32)
   they eat much lesser memory with /e switch and no DPMS installed (0.9K
   conventional for NWCDEX itself + 0.3K for environment against 15K in
   UMB for MSCDEX - this is not bad), but much more without /e switch and
   no DPMS (80K + 0.3K for environment against 43K for MSCDEX)

5. NWCDEX.EXE not allow to see AudioCDs at least for some players (for
   example, for Acer CD Pro for DOS)

6. COMP.EXE can't work in batches: they not return errorlevels and ask
   when files differs by size


        Whishes

1. Universal ATAPI CD driver (with small footprint!)
2. Mouse driver compatible with MS Mouse 8.2 (with small footprint!)
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