Re: Saving write protected files

[asha g]

Jordi and stephan,

Thanks for your responses. I brought my files along on
a CD. They are executable text files. .m files. I
copied them to my home folder here - aseasha. Now when
I go into it - they have become write protected files.
I am not sure what is going on. 
Asha 
--- Jordi Guti�rrez Hermoso <address@hidden>
wrote:

> On 13/04/2008, asha g <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I am writing code in Octave using Emacs editor as
> I
> >  normally do. However, when I am trying to save it
> - it
> >  does not as it says the file is write protected.
> 
> That is odd... are you trying to modify system
> files? Or are you
> trying to save to a place to which you don't have
> write access?
> 
> Unless your setup is really weird, you should have
> write access to
> your home directory (e.g. /home/asha). If you are
> working with
> Octave's files and you want to modify them, you can
> save a copy of
> them to your home directory. In Emacs, C-x C-w will
> let you save a
> file to a different location.
> 
> If you want to directly modify Octave's system
> files, you're going to
> need collaboration from your system administrator.
> 
> HTH,
> - Jordi G. H.
> 


 
   
   
   
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