On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Larry Sword wrote:

> I can confirm your findings. You are not alone. Now to find out why?
> 
> Larry
> 
> 
> Rick Friedman wrote:
> > I was just wondering if anyone can confirm this for me? Using
> > OpenOffice 1.0, I cannot read in a file (doc, txt, whatever).
> > OpenOffice starts to access the CD and then it just stops. I have two
> > drives. One is a CD-RW drive and the other is a DVD. They are setup as
> > /dev/scd0 & /dev/scd1 respectively. I don't know if that has anything
> > to do with it. I don't know why it would.
> > 
> > Anyway, this isn't really a problem for me... more of an observation. I
> > was just curious if anyone else can reproduce this? Or is it specific
> > to my machine for some reason?

If you copy the files to a writeable directory, can you access them?
What if you chmod -w the directory so that you can't write to it?
> > 


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