On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 15:58, David B Teague sr > Your suggestion above for works with Windows 7, and LO 3.3.0. to treat an > opened document as read only. > > Changing a document (or any file) to read only is an operating system > dependent function. > > In Windows, > > right click > properties, > click security tab, > uncheck Write in the Allow column > > Once this is done, any word processor that can open the document will open > it read only. > > I am certain there is an equivalent way to do this on the Mac, and on the > several Linux variants, but it has been 10 years since I worked in a Linux > environment prior to retirement. >
Off the top of my head that would be: $ chmod -r file.odt But I'm not looking to protect a document from writes, but rather to make it more comfortable to read. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
