12-10-13 12:32 mark lewis wrote to Ed Vance about Floppy WP

 ml> {at}MSGID: 
 ml> 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

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

Mark,

I do use LIST.COM as a Viewer lots and lots of times.

I also noticed Text Files will show up in Irafanview when I click
the Left or Right Arrow to see the next file in a sub-directory that
has the .JPG I'm currently looking at.

I just never thought Notepad would care if the WP Tap was UP on the
disk I wanted to use when I wanted NP to open a Text File I just wanted
to look at.

Yesterday I put another disk in the FDD and NP opened the file to let
me see it even though I already had slid the WP Tab UP on that disk.


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