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From: Alex Mauer <hawke@hawkesnest.net>
Subject: Re: Creating directories with pkunzip, rar, et. al.
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 02:02:23 -0500
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Bart Oldeman wrote:

> 
> It's an internal DOSEMU problem, and an old one at that!
> The problem is that DOSEMU emulates the "archive" DOS attribute
> through the user x bit. Very few DOS programs attempt to set or reset
> the archive attribute on directories, but pkunzip 2.50 does.
> 

Would it make sense to use extended attributes for this where XA is 
available?  Or am I misunderstanding something vital?

-Alex Mauer "hawke"