Hi Diwakar,
Check the error message again, it probably says that it could not "preserve
the permissions". This is because you are probably trying to write to a
filesystem that does not support permissions (say VFat or FAT).
~Nitin
On Thursday 14 June 2001 02:27 pm, you wrote:
> as a user, when i cp a file from /mnt/floppy to the
> /mnt/windows/mydocu~1/text directory, i get a
> "Permission denied" message, but the file is copied
> anyway. why does this happen?
>
> - Diwakar
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