Mike Scott wrote:
Yes. Sorry if it's labouring the point, but consider a 'nix system
with its decent protection in place. I have read but not write access
to your fm file & containing directory [or, worse, write access to the
fm file, but the directory is ro], and wish to make a change to your
file and save the altered version in my own directory. I /could/ copy
the file first; more likely I'd open your file, edit, then save in the
new place.
It seems there are several possibilities - maybe the safest would be
to prohibit changes until the file were saved somewhere writeable. But
I'm just curious to know (I've not touched fm for over 15 years!)
It has always notified you of a RO file or directory when any kind of
write is attempted. But it didn't flag a file as read-only until
recently, so you were able to revise away for hours if you had auto
switched off -- but when you tried a save -- Uh, oh! But once the file
is saved somewhere, the whole lock, auto, save, recovery thing is
normal. If you crashed while editing an RO file, too bad.
Plays nice now, though.
Hedley
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