Re: permissions and waiting on user input

[apz <apz nofate com>]

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 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

I am not using the newest mc, but isnt there a switch
'Preserve Attributes' used just for that purpose?


/apz, All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors