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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 09:00:36 +0000
From: J P Morris <b52g AT usa DOT net>
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To: gedavis AT eos DOT ncsu DOT edu, opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Win95 no more.
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Glenn E. Davis wrote:
> 
> Well after struggling with Win95 and a stupid game that only ran under
> Win95... I gave up. Gave the game to my brother... deleted Win95
> (manually)... and reinstalled OD702. Then I decided to go with the GA
> release so now I have DR702.
> 
> Well heres the deal. When I installed DR702 over the resysed MS6.02
> partition, everything went fine. When I started peaking around at my
> directories to see if any thing was hurt... I found one of my
> directories was password protected. Why? I have no clue... went to OS/2,
> copied the files to another directory, deleted the directory, recreated
> the directory and copied everything back... nothing else seems messed up
> like this.
> 
> So did OD/DR password protect a directory for me? That was nice of

Win 95 passworded the directory.  M$ use the same flags for LFN that we
use for
passwording.  I doubt you would have been able to enter the password
anyway as it
probably consisted of "$_#@ and lots of zeros..

> him... it would have been nicer if he had given me the password so I
> could have disabled it... C'est la vie. So I'm back to OD/DR now and no
> more Win95 for me. I'll probably pass on Win98/99 too.
>
> Oh well.
> 
> Glenn E. Davis
> gedavis AT eos DOT ncsu DOT edu

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