Author: Kirk Bagwell
Date: 06:53:39 07/07/99
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On July 07, 1999 at 00:10:36, Steve Lopez wrote: >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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