From: daz <dooby@...10.karoo.co.uk>
Date: 2004-03-16T16:04:34+09:00
Subject: Re: How can I copy a read-only file?


> Curt Hibbs wrote:
> > I've got a generic method that copies files. I want to preserve the
> > attributes of the source file in the destination file. I started using this:
> >
> >    require "ftools"
> >    ...
> >    File.copy(src_file, dest_dir)
> >
> > This works until I encounter a read-only file, then I get an exception:
> >
> >    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/ftools.rb:23:in `initialize':
> >    Permission denied - E:\Dev\RubyDev\rubyinstaller\c
> >    vs-repo\installer\stable/doc\DBD/ODBC-0.96/COPYING
> >    (Errno::EACCES)
>

Perhaps you've repeated the copy and you already have a read-only
version in your dest directory which ftools is trying to *write* to ??


daz