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Re: Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows |
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Mon, 13 Jun 2016 16:57:44 +0300 |
> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 00:39:18 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Davin Pearson <davin.pearson@gmail.com>
>
> > > c:\Program Files (x86)\emacs-24.5\share\info>chmod 666 dir
> > > chmod: changing permissions of 'dir': Permission denied
> > >
> > > What gives? How do I go about getting write access to the file "dir"?
> >
> > Is that file really a read-only file? Does its Properties tab in
> > Explorer show the Read-only attribute set? If not, chmod won't help
> > you, and your problem is probably due to the fact that your user is
> > denied access to "Program Files" and everything under it. In that
> > case, the solution is not to install Emacs under "C:\Program Files",
> > but elsewhere, preferably on disk D.
>
> I am trying to write an automated installer module that patches the dir
> file to add an additional link to a file jtw-manual.info. My installer
> module complains about not being able to save the file "dir".
>
> If there is no way to change the file "dir" then my system will be less
> usable
> to users of GNU Emacs on Windows systems. Everything works fine under
> Linux, although the user has to be in logged in as root to patch the "dir"
> file, among
> other things.
>
> I thought that there must be a way of writing to the "dir" file...
You didn't reply to any of the questions I asked. You also didn't
tell enough about your installer module. So it's hard to help you
more.
One thing I can add to what I already said: the usual way of modifying
the 'dir' file is by running the 'install-info' utility. Not sure if
doing so will solve your problem, but manually updating 'dir' is not a
good idea, either.
> It is possible under GNU/Linux to change the "dir" file. That may be some
> way forward here. The user could boot into Linux and run the installer
> script which
> enables them to access the C:/Program Files (x86)/ folder.
IME, installing data files under "C:\Program Files" is asking for
trouble. IME, all those problems go away if you install on a
non-system drive. But I already said that.
- Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows, Davin Pearson, 2016/06/12
- Re: Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/06/12
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- Re: Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows, Davin Pearson, 2016/06/13
- Re: Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows, Yuri Khan, 2016/06/13
- Re: Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows,
Eli Zaretskii <=
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- Re: Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows, Davin Pearson, 2016/06/13
- Re: Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows, Yuri Khan, 2016/06/14
- Re: Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/06/14
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- Re: Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows, Davin Pearson, 2016/06/14