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Re: Problems wtih flie permissions.


At 11:41 PM 6/10/2004, you wrote:
>I'm copying from a file from hard disk to a DVD+RW from within Cygwin. I 
>noticed that the copied file on the destination DVD becomes read-only 
>automatically. If I do a chmod +w on the file, the file becomes writable only 
>momentarily before becoming readonly again! Does someone know what is it that 
>I'm doing wrong?
>
>I'm accessing both the drives as /cygdrive/c and /cygdrive/d, the latter being 
>the DVD+RW drive and the former my hard disk.
>


Does it work as expected with 'attrib'?  If so, see 
<http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.


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