On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Chris Dunford wrote:
Windows won't tag the files inside the zipped file, just the zipped
file itself.
Well, any decent zip utility will store the attributes of the files it
zips, and restore them on extract, so they really should remain
read-only. I would think that even Windows's built-in zip support does
this (I don't use it, so I don't know for sure).
So, I still don't understand, but I guess maybe I didn't read the
initial problem correctly.
The problem was, as I understood it, files marked read/write were
being copied to a CD, where they became read-only. Then, on being
copied to a new machine's hard drive, they were still read-only. If a
zip file was created on the original machine, the file attributes
inside the zip file should mark those files read/write. If the zip
file is copied to a CD, only the zip file itself (not the files inside)
should be marked read-only. Then, if files are extracted from the zip
file on the CD to a destination machine's hard drive, they should be
extracted as read/write, not read-only. Correct?
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Vicky Staubly http://www.steeds.com/vicky/ [email protected]
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