Is there a way to turn a 'read only' file to 'non-read only'???
Reading the manual I can't conclude how to do this... (I'm talking about windows XP files)
Greetings from Sao Paulo - Brazil
Ricardo
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Resetting the read only attribute
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- Arí Ricardo Ody 2
- Ewald Horn 1
- Tomas Hajny 1
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Hi.
You could use FileSetAttr('filename', faArchive)
method to set the attributes to archive and remove the read only flag.
Remember to include SYSUTILS if you have not already done so.
Regards
Ewald
Thank you Ewald!
IMHO the manual is not clear in this matter(:-\).
Regards
Ricardo
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Hi.
You could use FileSetAttr('filename', faArchive)
method to set the attributes to archive and remove the
read only flag.
Remember to include SYSUTILS if you have not already
done so.
Regards
Ewald
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Is there a way to turn a 'read only' file to 'non-read only'??? Reading the manual I…
Arí Ricardo Ody wroteIs there a way to turn a 'read only' file to 'non-read only'??? Reading the manual I can't conclude how to do this... (I'm talking about windows XP files)
I guess that it's mostly because attribute
setting isn't portable across platforms
(SysUtils.FileSetAttr always returns -1 on all
Unix platforms and Dos.SetFAttr is simply ignored
there). DOS-like (which includes Windows and
OS/2) attributes are partly emulated for
functions reading attributes, but their changes
cannot be emulated meaningfully (well, it might
be possible the other way round, i.e. emulating
the more complex/complete solution for writing
and the simpler one for reading, but the
usefulness would be probably questionable.
Tomas