chmod not working on firewire drive

Dear Y'all - I'm having a disquieting experience in which I can't remove write permission (i.e. "bash$ chmod a-x filespec") on my firewire drive. I've sudoed to no avail. Any ideas? - Billy ====

Re: Newcomer with a few questions

tter. Jay> Also, is there any way to create a dialog (with an 'ok' and Jay> 'cancel' button) using Perl? Would I have to use TK (I Jay> believe that's what it's called) for GUI types of things? Yes. Yours - Billy ===

DBD::Oracle

akefile.PL may produce erroneous results. ERROR: symbol table needs modification in Oracle library: /Users/oracle/9iR2/orahome/lib/libclntsh.dylib.9.0 Any ideas? Yours Billy - William Goedicke [EMAIL