Steve Higham writes: The patch described in the log below is one of the main reasons for the release of 21.4.20, and it was intended to *fix* these access problems. 2006-11-19 Benson Margulies <benson(a)dchbk.us&gt; * fileio.c: Add code to use full Win32 API to check for write access. Win32 has the general design policy that you aren't supposed to ask this question, since security checks change depending on asynchronous processes. Nonetheless, there is a way, by acting as if we are a server doing interpretive access control. Feel free to weep. Any ideas, Benson? _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta