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Subject:	Re: Latex installation problem
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From:	Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke AT gnu DOT org>
Date:	Tue, 02 Jul 2002 22:13:35 +0200
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Dennis Allison <allison AT sumeru DOT stanford DOT EDU> writes:

> Installation was done as Administrator on Win2000.  It still might
> have something to do with permissions... As for calling any Win*
> system a "real operating-system"...

Ok.  Anyway, I meant as contrast to the usual consumer
toy-os-variants.

> I have noticed that changing permissions is sometimes/always disallowed on 
> existing file even though ownership and the like appears to be OK.  Does 
> cygwin require something special there?

Not cygwin, Windows, rather.  Try running getfacl on the file.

Jan.

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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke AT gnu DOT org> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
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