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Subject: Re: Latex installation problem
References: <200207021934 DOT MAA03209 AT sumeru DOT stanford DOT EDU>
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From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke AT gnu DOT org>
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 22:13:35 +0200
In-Reply-To: <200207021934.MAA03209@sumeru.stanford.EDU> (Dennis Allison's
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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
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien       | http://www.lilypond.org


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