[Elecraft] K3 Utility Installation Problem (somewhat OT)

[Doug Person]

  A directory is not a file.  It is only an item in the file control 
system table.  You're assuming that the properties of the directory 
dictate the access control level of the files associated with it.  This 
isn't the case.  You can't write to a directory the same way you can 
write to a file.  Therefore, it is read-only.  A directory looks like a 
container but its not.  It is an association or an attribute of a file.

Doug -- K0DXV

On 8/5/2010 5:58 AM, ab2tc wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using XP. When I view properties for *any* directory it shows Read Only
> although they are not. Maybe technically a directory (which is a file) is
> read only meaning that application software cannot write to them directly,
> only the OS can. That doesn't mean that applications cannot create and write
> files in that directory.
>
> AB2TC - Knut
>
>
> Mike-14-3 wrote:
>>    Hmmmmmm..... My directory comes up with RO also, and I can also write
>> there. Thanks
>> Microsoft.......
>>
>> I use InnoSetup for my installs, and it has a constant that will put
>> writable files
>> in the proper directory, and I am pretty sure it unpacks the install  (by
>> default)
>> into temp. No problems with it so far on WIn7.
>>
>> I'm puzzled.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> <snip>
>>