RE: read-only files are now not read-only buffers

-----Original Message----- From: xemacs-beta-admin(a)xemacs.org [mailto:xemacs-beta-admin＠xemacs.org]On Behalf Of David M. Karr Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 12:09 AM To: xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org Subject: Re: read-only files are now not read-only buffers >>>>> "Andy" == Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.org&gt; 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. -- =================================================================== David M. Karr ; Java/J2EE/XML/Unix/C++ dmkarr(a)earthlink.net