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- From: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: case #77a.1: -----rw-d Disk.info
- Message-ID: <34815@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 12:23:27 GMT
- References: <02jn56=.damiel@netcom.com>
- Reply-To: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
- Lines: 40
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- damiel@netcom.com (Paul Theodoropoulos) writes:
- >
- >i'm sure i'm doing something boneheaded, and am simply overlooking the
- >obvious. however, knowing that doesn't alleviate the problem.
- >
- >whenever i _clean up_ a window, then _snapshot_all_, my .info files
- >are modified to have the e bit unmodifyable. i go into the shell,
- >type
- >
- >protect xxx.info +e
- >
- >list it and it shows rwed. i try again, same thing happens, position
- >won't be saved.
- >
- >i'm going cuckoo.
-
- No, the system is removing the "EXECUTABLE" bit from all of the .info files.
- Not a single one of them can ever be a executable program and thus when
- the system writes the files, it makes sure they are not marked as such.
- Why you would want the "EXECUTABLE" bit set for icons is byond me.
-
- >Amiga 3000, 8meg STZIPP, 2 meg chip, 25Mhz, 40meg quantum/40meg conner,
- >OS2.04, a multitude of pd/shareware running at startup (which will wind
- >up being the problem with my luck).
- >
- >(cpu-control, ramsey, pp, decigel020, rad:, faccII, fontcachex, star,
- ^^^^^^
-
- Word to the wise: This may be a very dangerouse program to run...
- There is no need to run this as the OS does the "right thing"
-
- >worldtime, sunclock, autocli, cpublit, clockdj, unarp, tagscreens, conclip)
-
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