Re: [OpenVerse] Windows problem!

[Ed Lange <elange@justice.loyola.edu>]

On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 07:00:59AM +1300, Cruise wrote:
> Whenever it tries to open history.txt or passageways.txt during startup it
> generates an error "Permission Denied"
>
>   Does anyone know what sort of windows crap could be causing this?

It sounds like those files have been set to read-only.  It's been a
long time since I've used dos or windoze, but I think the attrib
command is what's used to examine and reset such things.

>From a dos prompt, type "attrib" by itself and it gives a directory
listing with a bunch of letters on the left indicating Archive,
System, Hidden, and Read-only status.  "attrib -r filename.ext" should
remove read-only bits from a read-only file.  If it's also marked as
system, I believe you have to remove the system bit first (attrib -s),
then remove read-only.  Bill may have finally fixed it so that you can
do that both at once (attrib -s -r).

More likely, if you're using something later than windoze 98, then
Bill has removed most of the dos commands for your convenience.  I'd
hope that there's a way to remove the read-only attribute through the
gui.

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Edward C. Lange                                   elange@justice.loyola.edu

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