Re: permissions and waiting on user input

[Nicola Larosa <nico tekNico net>]

> > 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 work at all.


> That's why the "Ignore all" button is so often asked for, and that's why
> it's in the TODO list for version 4.6.1.

This is good. :^)


> Of course, there is a way to mount vfat partitions so that they ignore the
> permission problems.  The option is called "quiet", see "man mount" for
> details.

This does not work either, at least when accessing a FAT partition on 
another Win98 machine through Samba. :^(


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Nicola Larosa - nico tekNico net