Re: Problems wtih flie permissions.

> Well, attrib does work from cmd.exe as well as from within cygwin. Weird. Did it work with older versions of cygwin or coreutils, or is this the first time you tried it? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Doc

Re: Problems wtih flie permissions.

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

Problems wtih flie permissions.

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 th