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echo: os2prog
to: Jonathan de Boyne Pollar
from: Kelly Schrock
date: 1994-08-29 20:33:04
subject: Wot, No Permission ?

JP> KS>
JP>   > I'm not sure why you're getting the "Permission
Denied" error. It was
JP>   > rumored that  OS/2 doesn't allow a running .EXE to be written to, but
JP>   > this is apparently not the case, according to what I've read.
JP> KS>
JP> 
JP>   It's true nevertheless.  Try it.

Oh, I believe it. OS/2 doesn't allow a running .EXE to be written to
so that when it has to reload part of an .EXE from disk in a low memory
situation, it's sure to be the same as it was the first time it was
loaded. However, I read recently that the reason you shouldn't try to
write to a running .EXE isn't because it can't be written to, it's
because the newly-modified part would never get saved to disk. Kind of
misleading. I was misled. I'm enlightened now.

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