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From: pnelson@antares.UUCP (Phil Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New 1.3 file protection bits
Summary: wierd problem with TxEd Plus
Keywords: editor TxEd Plus 1.3 protection bits
Message-ID: <235@antares.UUCP>
Date: 31 Oct 88 00:08:54 GMT
References: <3431@leo.UUCP> <2462@m2-net.UUCP>
Reply-To: pnelson@antares.UUCP (Phil Nelson)
Organization: Tymnet QSATS, San Jose CA
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In article <2462@m2-net.UUCP> ba@m-net.UUCP (Bill Allen) writes:

>It appears that editing and re-saving any script file with any editor
>destroys all pure/script/arc/h bits.
>Everything gets reset to "----rwed".
>Makes debugging scripts very inconvienent.  Why does this happen?
>-- 

A related? problem;

I now have two files in my s: dir (on jh0:) that TxEd will not write, no
matter how I set the protection bits. I had a script with -s--r--- which I
tried to edit, when I tried to save and exit, TxEd did not write the file
(of course), but it _said_ it had, twice. the third time I realized my
mistake, and set the bits to -s--rw--. Still it would not write the file.
So I set to -s--rwed, no go. Also no go for ----rwed. MicroEmacs had no
problem with the same file, although it did reset all the extra bits, as
above. Also, I can create new files in s: and edit them with TxEd, but after
I tinker with the protection, TxEd won't touch them.

All this is making me nervous about using TxEd, does anyone know what is
going on?


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>Reply-To: ba@m-net.UUCP (Bill Allen Beogelein)
>Organization: M-NET, Ann Arbor, MI
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