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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 16:01:29 -0400
To: Some Developer <somedeveloper AT yahoo DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Problems wtih flie permissions.
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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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