I think I found the problem: I backed up some stuff on a cd; when I transferred the files to my other computer all the file properties read "read-only", so whenever eomega tried to modify a temporary file (fls, log, etc) it was denied permission. Is there a way in windows to globally change every file in a given directory from read-only? Apparently, texexec and eomega each creates fls files on each run. context.fls lists the installation directories, etc. Best Idris Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

Thursday, November 13, 2003 Idris S Hamid wrote:> Any idea what I'm missing?

No. This looks like a system(Web2C)-dependent issue, though: AFAIK neither ConTeXt nor eOmega themselves look for *.fls files (I don't even know what .fls stands for ...) What happens with Lambda?

Giuseppe Bilotta writes:

Thursday, November 13, 2003 Idris S Hamid wrote:

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I think I found the problem:

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I backed up some stuff on a cd; when I transferred the files to my other computer all the file properties read "read-only", so whenever eomega tried to modify a temporary file (fls, log, etc) it was denied permission.

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Is there a way in windows to globally change every file in a given directory from read-only?

If all the files are in the same directory, just select them all, right click and deselect the read-only attribute. Otherwise, get the shareware filemanager "Total Commander" from www.ghisler.com; it has a "flat" view that allows you to see all files in all subdirectories of a particular directory and manipulate them all together.

Or if you have an interest, you can install the Cygnus tools and from the command line do, cd my_directory find . ! -perm -0200 -print0 | xargs -0 chmod u+w ... which says, find everything under this subdirectory that doesn't have write permission for the file owner, and turn on write permission for the file owner on those files. -- --Ed L Cashin | PGP public key: ecashin@uga.edu | http://noserose.net/e/pgp/

Wednesday, November 19, 2003 Idris S Hamid wrote:

Thnx Ed and Giuseppe 4 your help & direction.

Question: When backing up to cd is there any way to maintain write-permission upon retransfer to hard disk? I use Nero for back-up. This is getting off-topic I know...

No because the read-only attribute is set at time of copying from CD, not of writing TO the CD. It's an operating system, uhm, 'feature'. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta