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Re: Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows
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Davin Pearson |
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Re: Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows |
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Mon, 13 Jun 2016 17:14:09 -0700 (PDT) |
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On Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at 1:57:03 AM UTC+12, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 00:39:18 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Davin Pearson <davin dot pearson at gmail dot com>
> > > Is that file really a read-only file? Does its Properties tab in
> > > Explorer show the Read-only attribute set? If not, chmod won't help
> > > you, and your problem is probably due to the fact that your user is
> > > denied access to "Program Files" and everything under it. In that
> > > case, the solution is not to install Emacs under "C:\Program Files",
> > > but elsewhere, preferably on disk D.
> You didn't reply to any of the questions I asked. You also didn't
> tell enough about your installer module. So it's hard to help you
> more.
The read only check box is not marked so chmod won't help me here. My
installer module adds a line to the dir file pointing to a new folder created
inside c:/Program Files (x86)/emacs-*. I managed to manually change the read
only status of the file "dir" by right clicking on "dir" and choosing
"Properties", then clicking on "Security" and clicking on Users
(DAVINPEARSON/Users) and clicking on the box: allow full control.
> One thing I can add to what I already said: the usual way of modifying
> the 'dir' file is by running the 'install-info' utility. Not sure if
> doing so will solve your problem, but manually updating 'dir' is not a
> good idea, either.
What's wrong with programmatically changing the contents of the "dir" file?
Do you think that I should use the "install-info" utility to patch the "dir"
file?
Do other flavours of GNU/Linux use the /media folder to access the windows hard
drives of your computer? Either way, the installer module could prompt the
user for the location of the c:\ drive.
- Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows, Davin Pearson, 2016/06/12
- Re: Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/06/12
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- Re: Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows, Davin Pearson, 2016/06/13
- Re: Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows, Yuri Khan, 2016/06/13
- Re: Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/06/13
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- Re: Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows,
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- Re: Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows, Yuri Khan, 2016/06/14
- Re: Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/06/14
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- Re: Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows, Davin Pearson, 2016/06/14