Re: Do file permissions exist on non-NT Windows systems?

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Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 14:26:55 +0200

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 21:06:27 +0200, Sale <nospam@my.inbox.net> wrote:

>On a Win98 based PC belonging to my neighbor, MS Word came up with
>this message:
>
>>The document name or path is not valid. Try these suggestions.
>>*Check the file permissions for the document or drive.
>>*Use the File Open dialog box to locate the document.
>>(D:\....Path....\***.DOC)
>
>The D:\ drive exists and the document is copied to it from a floppy,
>(in *.zip format,) and then unzipped. I think the original zipping
>took place on a NT-based mahine, but I'm not sure of the file system.
>
>I took the original *.zip file home, unzipped it on my WinXP/NTFS
>machine, and the document opened normally. I saved it, zipped it and
>took it back to the neighbor, who was now able to open the file.
>
>For all I know, there are no such things as "File Permissions" on
>FAT/FAT32 systems, but...what was all this?
>
>Any comments will be appreciated.
>
>Best regards
>
>Sale
>

Thanks for the replies...I didn't think of checking the origina file
attributes but I guess what confused me the most was that the file was
unzipped and opened normally on an NTFS HD, as well as on a FAT32
after I re-zipped and re-saved it on NTFS. The file was originally
copied to both drives from a floppy.

Thanks anyway

Sale

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