Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!masnet!canremote!mark.levy
From: mark.levy@canremote.uucp (MARK LEVY)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: VP/IX
Message-ID: <90022010211903@masnet.uucp>
Date: 20 Feb 90 14:06:00 GMT
Organization: Canada Remote Systems Limited, Mississauga, ON, Canada
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To: h_les@hlborl.UUCP (les brown)

hP>In article <90020606211361@masnet.uucp>, mark.levy@canremote.uucp
hP>(MARK LEVY) writes: > Regarding accessing the DOS partition, you only
hP>have read access.

hP>When I encountered that little hitch, I thought it obvious to change
hP>the permissions on my DOS partition (which worked fine).  Am I
hP>compromising something somewhere?  I do *all* my DOS stuff in and
hP>from my DOS partition.

   I am hesitant about writing across the partition boundries,
but then I don't know if damage could result.  I do know that the
VP/ix manual says to _NEVER_ run VP/ix as root, which would allow
you to write to the device.

Mark
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