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From: Frank Bax <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: Read Only
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 12:05:38 -0500


You still have to use special software to write to "rewritable" CD's.
The operating system itself still sees it as readonly.
The same thing will happen on both types of media.

Frank

At 10:39 AM 12/01/99 -0500, you wrote:
>What about _re-writable_ CDs?????????? Is there a problem also?
>Thanks
>Arlene
>-----Original Message-----
>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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