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- SET MODIFY-READ-ONLY ALWAYS/never/ask - whether to modify read-only files
-
- With the usual ALWAYS (or YES) setting, when you access a file read-only,
- you can use MM commands that modify the file. You have read-only access
- when you use EXAMINE (rather than GET), or when the file itself has
- read-only file protections.
-
- Many MM commands modify the file in some way, if only to mark a message
- as read, answered or deleted. The modifications are then normally written
- to the file on disk at various points, but if you have read-only access,
- the file on disk cannot be changed, so the modified version of the file is
- thrown away when you GET or EXAMINE another file, or quit MM.
-
- If you change it to NO, you cannot modify the file. When you use a command
- that would normally modify the file, you get a warning. The NO setting
- does have the advantage of making it clear that you have read-only access.
- Setting it to ASK is difficult to use, since MM will ask every time
- whether to modify.
-
- For more help, type "help" and one of the following:
- (at any prompt:) save-init set show
- (at the MM> prompt:) examine
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