Re: permissions and waiting on user input

2003-03-02 Thread Nicola Larosa
I am not using the newest mc, but isnt there a switch 'Preserve Attributes' used just for that purpose? Yes, this feature is present, but it's on by default, and once you start copying, there is no way to change it short of stopping the copying. Not only that, but in this case it does not seem to

Re: permissions and waiting on user input

2003-03-01 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello! > > When one copies something onto a vfat partition the fact that > > vfat doesn`t support UNIX permissions rises and bites as hell. > > I am not using the newest mc, but isnt there a switch > 'Preserve Attributes' used just for that purpose? Yes, this feature is present, but it's on

Re: permissions and waiting on user input

2003-03-01 Thread apz
Samium Gromoff wrote: When one copies something onto a vfat partition the fact that vfat doesn`t support UNIX permissions rises and bites as hell. Once you select and copy a dir subtree it fails on the topmost directory because "cannot change persmissions for ...". This ve

permissions and waiting on user input

2003-03-01 Thread Samium Gromoff
When one copies something onto a vfat partition the fact that vfat doesn`t support UNIX permissions rises and bites as hell. Once you select and copy a dir subtree it fails on the topmost directory because "cannot change persmissions for ...". This very feature makes mc