Re: helpfile could not be loaded ---> now it is !!

["Patricia M. Godfrey" PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx]

Pierre d'Or jcvanhaeften@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> (wich doesn't mean i understand why, because the help-file itself
> isn't changed nor in length nor the date-time-stamp)
When a file is marked Read-only at the system level, NO application can
write to it. But, as Fred pointed out, Xy HAS to write to the help file
on first use. Which it cannot do if the file is marked Read-only.
It's not just Fred's PC: apparently ALL CD writers set the Read-only
attribute bit on files they write to CD. (ZIP disks sometimes do it
too.) So whenever you copy anything from a CD-R or CD-RW (including
restoring data backed up to one), you MUST run attrib -R e:\dirname\*.*
/s to get rid of it. If Xy needs to access any of those files, also run
ATTRIB -A E:\DIRNAME\*.* /S (you can do it in one pass by combining the
swtiches: ATTRIB -R -A), since Xy chokes on files with the archive bit
set too. (The archive bit tracks whether or not a file has been copied
to another medium; it's great for doing incremental backups, since Xcopy
with the /M switch copies only files with the archive bit set, then
flips it so they don't get copied the next time if they haven't changed.)

Patricia M. Godfrey