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Subject: Re: hiarcs help!

Author: Steve Lopez

Date: 21:10:36 07/06/99

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On July 06, 1999 at 22:36:34, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>
>On July 06, 1999 at 22:04:18, walter irvin wrote:
>
>>this message shows the total frustration of trying to get hiarcs to work right
>>.i have tryed to get the book learning to work . the program keeps whinning
>>about tree on cd . so finally i copied the whole cd to hard drive still
>>,whinning about cd .does anyone know how to get it to quit whinning about cd .
>Please respond to this instead, so we don't get an insane shrieking title spread
>across the board.
>

Computers are stupid. When you copy a file from a CD to a hard drive, it still
thinks the files are on a non-writable medium (e.g. the CD) and have them marked
as "read only".

You need to remove this "read-only" file attribute. Use "My Computer" in Windows
95/98 to go to the folder where you copied the files. Hold down the CTRL key and
click once on each of the tree files to highlight them. The RIGHT-click on any
of the highlighted files. From the menu that appears, select "Properties".
You'll see that the "Read-only" attribute box has an X in it. UNselect this box,
click "Apply", then click "OK" or "Close" (depending on your flavor of Windows).
You should now be able to use tree learning with no problem.

BTW -- when you use the "Copy tree to disk" command in the Hiarcs program,
Hiarcs automatically removes the read only attribute for you when it copies the
files to the hard drive.

-- Steve Lopez



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