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To: Stoctrash who wrote (95)8/13/1998 11:02:00 AM
From: Mike Ankley  Read Replies (1) of 110602
 
Try using the Win95 DOS emulator ATTRIB command.
There may be a way using Win95 directly, but I think it tries to
prevent you from messing with the System flags.
(ATTRIB is an old DOS command. I assume Win95 DOS has
ATTRIB, I know my WinNT DOS does).

To use the DOS ATTRIB command in Win95, first open up
a DOS shell. Or use the Win95 Start/Run command.
The problem with using 'Run' is that it may run the DOS command,
but not allow you to see whether or not it succeeded, so I suggest
the DOS shell.

Then check to make sure you have the ATTRIB command.
Type ATTRIB with the '/?' (help) argument at the DOS prompt:

DOS> attrib /?

Displays or changes file attributes.

ATTRIB [+R|-R] [+A |-A] [+S|-S] [+H|-H] [[drive:] [path] filename] [/S]

+ Sets an attribute.
- Clears an attribute.
R Read-only file attribute.
A Archive file attribute.
S System file attribute.
H Hidden file attribute.
/S Processes matching files in the current directory
and all subdirectories.

Next, you would want to make use of the -S or +S arguments to
turn off/on the system file attribute.

DOS> attrib +s filename.sys

Finally, as a double check, whenever you want to see what the
current system file attributes are in the DOS shell, simply use
the ATTRIB command without any flags.

DOS> attrib filename.sys

or

DOS> attrib *.*

Cheers

Mike
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