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From: "arlene parnes" <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: Read Only
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 10:39:16 -0500


What about _re-writable_ CDs?????????? Is there a problem also?
Thanks
Arlene
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From: wfs <>
To: <>
Date: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: TMG-L: Read Only


>Hi Karen,
> tell your friend to make the files updateable by changing into the
directory
>and removing the 'read only' attribute.
>
>From a 'dos' prompt
>
> cd xxx - where xxx is the directory containing the tmg
data
>files
>
> attrib *.* -r - to remove the read only flag, or maybe it's
attrib -r
>*.* it's been a while
>
>Bill
>
>"Karen E. Willard" wrote:
>
>> Recently I put a copy of a 20,000+ name dataset onto a writable CD. Then
>> I mailed the CD to a friend and co-worker who also has TMG. When she got
>> the CD she copied the dataset from the CD onto her hard drive. Then she
>> launched TMG and went to open the hard drive version of the dataset...
>>
>> Only to be warned by scary messages that this was a read-only file.
>>
>> (1) How did the dataset get set this way when I didn't set it that way at
>> my end?
>> (2) And can she change that designation at her end?
>> (3) Or is there something I need to deliberately do at my end when I make
>> the next copy of a dataset and put it on a CD?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help,
>>
>> Karen Willard
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