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Subject: Re: hiarcs help!

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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