Re: [LUG] Problems with Evolution

[Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 28 July 2004 8:05, Peter James wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 July 2004 19:14, John Daragon wrote:
> > See my previous response - all of these files are read-only because you
> > copied them from CD.
>
> So, forgive my ignorance.  Is the solution to just use "chmod" and change
> the permissions accordingly?

Once they are copied off CD, yes. Alternatively, copy the files into a tarball 
(.tar.gz) and copy that to CD. Then when you uncompress the tarball, usable 
permissions will be set by most default GNU/Linux installations.

man tar
example:
tar -czf foobar_tarball.tar.gz foo/bar/foo

Also, please read the email-etiquette page on the DCLUG wiki about not quoting 
the entire message - please snip parts of the reply that are not relevant to 
your contribution.

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