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Operating System Specific Discussions => Amiga OS => Amiga OS -- Application questions and support => Topic started by: Gryfon on September 26, 2019, 05:39:50 PM
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It's been an age, so I'm opening this out to the crowd.
How to I push out "write" flags to a folder (and its' contents) in AmigaDOS?
If I recall correctly it's the Protect command...
Thanks in advance.
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This should work:
PROTECT Work:Mydir +W ALL
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That's the very one - thank you very much! My memory for such things is poor.
Having a problem with it...
Using FS-UAE 3.0 on a PC with Windows; installed OS 3.9. It's installed in a directory, not an HDF. Also have a Work: directory as a hard drive.
I un-LHA'd Boing Bag 1 on the Work: drive (within OS 3.9, not from Windows) but when installing it ran up against some read-only files and crashed. It wrecked the System installation, so I had to start again.
Rebuilt 3.9 System: and am keeping a copy of the folder safe.
I've un-LHA'd Boing Bag 1 again to Work:, but thought I would add the read/write flag manually to the entire folder before installing.
Problem is it keeps getting part way through applying the W flag, then FS-UAE session freezes, crashes and disappears.
When I restart, I can run the protect command again, but it crashes again on different files every time.
I think I will just knock up a quick HDF file, un-LHA the archive to there and then run PROECT on it.
Meanwhile thanks again for your help.
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Yes, use a HDF, this is much better. Maybe Windows is trying to index the folder or that stupid malwareprotectionservice is messing with it.
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That worked perfectly - unLHA'ing to the HDF meant I didn't have to push the write flag at all.
The only other 'gotcha' was Boing Bag 1 failing to install but without error, so I grabbed the installer from C on the OS3.9 CD and copied over the one in C and Utilities; I figured the Boing Bag would work with the installer that came with OS3.9 and it worked perfectly.
Thanks again for your advice.