From: Joe Mason <joe@...>
Date: 2004-03-16T17:44:34+09:00
Subject: Re: How can I copy a read-only file?

In article <slrnc5d6mm.b35.joe@gate.notcharles.ca>, Joe Mason wrote:
>> 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)
> 
> Yes.  That's because you don't have permission to read it, as expected.

Duh.  read-only, not write-only.  Ignore me.

Joe