>>>> "Andy" == Andy Piper
<andy(a)xemacs.org> writes:
> Ok, well, I don't understand it, but after changing my
"CYGWIN"
> variable from
> "tty" to "tty nontsec", opening a read-only file in XEmacs now
> reflects the
> read-only status. It's still a little odd that "vi" had no
> trouble detecting
> this, even before changing the CYGWIN value.
Andy> I'm sure you are aware that NT file permissions work subtley differently
to
Andy> UNIX permissions. I suspect this is at work somehow.
Aware of it, yes. Understand it well enough to see why this would happen, not
at all.
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