permissions and waiting on user input

[Samium Gromoff <deepfire ibe miee ru>]

        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 painful, very painful to use with vfat, and
 cp -R is used to circumvent that.

in the hope to help, Samium Gromoff