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Re: Farewell to the orphaned file ...
On Sun, 26 Apr 1998 19:51:57 -0400 (EDT), Bob Bashford wrote:
> Thanks to all who responded ... I deleted it (them) in DOS,
>ran chkdsk and speedisk (Norton's defrag) ... did a cold boot and here we
>are ... no clue as to why it was so large ... I never installed any software
>under OS2 ...
As I wrote eariler, this has extended attributes for ALL the files and directories. HPFS
stores these along with each file, and HPFS has so many other niceties.
the machine had whatever it came with ... rarely used OS2
>(perhaps I should have) ... and as far as comparative uninstalls (OS2 vs
>W95), I've only done the former ... I'm sure the W95 leaves much more litter
>... I dread the day I have to start using it ...
>
Well, try OS/2, or even Linux. I think you will find it a nice change.
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