jchapman@watcgl.UUCP (john chapman) (06/25/85)
I was trying to use the MS-DOS get/set file attributes last
night and ran into a problem. Get works fine (at least it returns
reasonable values for the files I was looking at) but Set returns
an error code (2) that is not in my documentation.
The only codes in my doc. are:
1 - AL has the wrong function (0=get, 1=set, anything else=error)
3 - bad path (file does not exist)
5 - invalid attributes in CX, either a non-existent attribute
or one which cannot be changed (e.g. vol. label)
I can get each of the above error codes by using an incorrect/illegal
parameter appropriately so all the paramter error checking is taking
place as described in the manual which to me also means that when I
get a return code of 2 back it is not objecting to any of the things
error codes 1,3,5 are used for; everything I pass seems ok but no
action is taken other than to return 2.
Is get/set not completely implemented (I'm running generic 2.0 btw)?
I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thanks in advance,
John Chapman
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