id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
9	@eawrite[] does not remove EA	Anton Monroe	Gregg Young	"Passing a null string to @eawrite is supposed to remove the EA. Instead, it keeps the EA and sets the length to 0.
  set ret=%@eawrite[file,.SUBJECT,the subject]
  set ret=%@eawrite[file,.SUBJECT,]  <--4OS2 thinks the EA is gone
Rexx shows the whole EA--
  set ret=%@rexx[call SysGetEA 'file','.SUBJECT','EAval' ; parse var EAVal EAhdr +2 EAlen +2 EAstr ; say '    [REXX] EA == ""'c2x(EAhdr)'"" ""'c2x(reverse(EAlen))'"" ""'EAstr'""']

I noticed it because I was getting error messages from FC/2 about invalid EAs when copying files from an NDFS drive. I don't know the 4OS2 EAs were the cause, but FC/2 has not complained since I cleaned out all the empty EAs.

I suspect the fix would be just a matter of passing 0 to DosSetPathInfo instead of the length of the empty EA header. 

A workaround is to use Rexx to delete the EA--
     set ret=%@rexx[call SysPutEA ""%filename"", %EAname,'']
"	defect	closed	major	Version-3.10	Base		fixed		akm@…