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From: "YoYo" <YoYo AT wxc DOT net>
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 23:47:43 +0100
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To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: protecting DR-DOS from Windows
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Hi,

> On Sat, 29 Apr 2000 20:26:00 +1000 (EST), DONALD PEDDER wrote:

>> see last postings.

More on MS-DOS and DR-DOS.

If you install IE in Win9x, while somewhere on the system is
a previous version of IE (in my case, in Win 3.11), this dir
will become a lfn as well (so I zip the Win 3.11 and Win 3.11
utils dirs and delete the dirs when I install Win9x apps. Afterwards
I can unzip them w/o any trouble.
This (and my prev. posting) is no solution to let DR-DOS fix the lfns,
but you can get Win9x under control (at this point).

BTW, there's another thing in multi OSs:
if one uses DR-DOS HDD protection (/w password), it's still possible
to boot /w MS-DOS or Linux floppy and delete and recreate the
partitions and rewrite the MBR and the DR-DOS passwords are gone.

Using DR-DOS directory password makes it a hidden dir for MS-DOS, no
passwords, just attrib or use a commander to view/write in/delete the dir.

And of course, the same with file passwords.

And all the password protected files/dirs will become hidden files/dirs
w/o password or /w unknown password after copying them (still in DR-DOS).
(I mean the new ones, the originals are still the same).

BTW, I'm only experienced /w DR-DOS 7.03, but I guess it'll be the same
(or worse) in older versions.

-- Best regards,
-- Willy J. Hoogstraten aka YoYo.

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