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- From: joiner@myria.cs.umn.edu (Jay K. Joiner)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Read only files, HPFS, wrong, wrong, wrong
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- Date: 10 Sep 92 15:03:18 GMT
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- In <1992Sep10.050559.5642@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
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- >After playing with GNU RCS for a while I have come to the conclusion that
- >the DOS System/Hidden/Read Only attributes for files are a little stupid.
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- >DOS style (and hence HPFS), you check out a file, but then can not compile
- >it because it is read only. This is especially painful when using GNUMAKE
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- I was under the impression the problem was with GCC not being able to
- open read-only files.
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