On Mon, 09 Dec 2013, Ed Vance wrote to All:

 EV> Last week I wanted to use my USB Floppy Disk Drive (FDD) to look at
 EV> a old Disk I had.

 EV> I connected the FDD to my XP box and before I put the disk in the
 EV> drive I set the WP (Write Protect) switch Up to make the disk Read
 EV> Only.

 EV> When I double-clicked on the text file I wanted to look at I saw a
 EV> Message WIndow appear telling me to make the disk Writeable before
 EV> Notepad would let me read it.

 EV> I thought that was strange when it happened so I thought to tell
 EV> about it here 

this happened because you were using an =editor= which expects to be able
to open files for writing as well as reading... you should have used a file
viewer instead of a file editor ;)

)\/(ark

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can
think. - Werner Heisenberg

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