Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site ICO.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!cca!ICO!farmer From: farmer@ICO.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: xenix doscp cmd Message-ID: <15400001@ICO.UUCP> Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 08:37:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ICO.15400001 Posted: Wed Sep 11 08:37:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 15-Sep-85 04:46:11 EDT References: <21900080@uiucuxc.UUCP> Lines: 9 Nf-ID: #R:uiucuxc:21900080:ICO:15400001:000:378 Nf-From: ICO!farmer Sep 11 08:37:00 1985 When writing to dos disks, it took me a long time before I realized that the message "cannot open ..." was due to the fact that the permissions on /dev/fd... were read only. I had great success once I su'ed to root. I probably could just change the permissions, but haven't bothered. Dave Farmer p.s. This is my first response, so I don't know what the path is going to be.