Problem - When you burn files to a CD, file attributes are set to read only, for obvious reasons.
Question - How could one automate it so when you restore from CD they're set back to original? Or even set all to archive?
I realize I could do an entire directory at once, but if you're doing multipe directories that's time consuming - that, and I'd like to come up with something that would work for computer barely literate people.
EX - Get their system setup how they want, burn an image to CD. They screw it up. So I'd created a floppy that it can boot off, format drive, sys a: c:, then put everything back from the CD, easy enough to do with a batch file - except the file attributes. I -could- have a batch file reset each file, but damn, there's gotta be a reasonable way to do this.
Heck, anyone know of a freeware installer? Basically all it'd have to do is set the attributes and move files, no compression needed (or necessarily wanted).
--McC
Question - How could one automate it so when you restore from CD they're set back to original? Or even set all to archive?
I realize I could do an entire directory at once, but if you're doing multipe directories that's time consuming - that, and I'd like to come up with something that would work for computer barely literate people.
EX - Get their system setup how they want, burn an image to CD. They screw it up. So I'd created a floppy that it can boot off, format drive, sys a: c:, then put everything back from the CD, easy enough to do with a batch file - except the file attributes. I -could- have a batch file reset each file, but damn, there's gotta be a reasonable way to do this.
Heck, anyone know of a freeware installer? Basically all it'd have to do is set the attributes and move files, no compression needed (or necessarily wanted).
--McC
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