[Discussion] OS/2 Getting Harder To Work With

[James Vaughn]

The EA tells OS what an object does and what it needs to run.
A directory is an object and EAs tells the OS where the information is
that you need or where to collect it.

On 10/15/09, jim.scott at scottelectronic.com
<jim.scott at scottelectronic.com> wrote:
> ** Reply to note from "Dave Yeo" <daveryeo at telus.net> Sun, 09 Aug 2009
> 19:35:49 -0800
>
> Question:
>
> If the EA's for the directories contain position information (I'm presuming
> Icons), then wouldn't moving those
> icons have the same effect since the new position would be written to the
> EA?
>
> My right mouse button brings up the directory list but as it would appear if
> I had double clicked the
> particular drive object on the desktop.
>
> I do know that on my machine, sometimes it appears as though it must build
> the directory tree, and takes a few
> moments.  I seem to recall sometime back when I had a directory that had
> problems, and would not report itself to
> the system correctly (perhaps a bad track or something) and the drive
> listing would hang.
>
> Probably not much help, but FWIW.
>
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Jim Scott
>
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