LR>Why should OS/2 or any operating system presume what files are writeable or
LR>not. Doesn't seem to make sense to me - unless OS/2 is marking all .exe's as
LR>"Read Only" for some inexplicable reason.  Hmmmm.  Regards, -= Lou =-

Actually, the reason is not inexplicable.  It has been explained in
various books on the design of OS/2.  OS/2 loads programs in a read only
mode, preventing any writes to the .EXE file, because if OS/2 encounters
a low memory condition, it may discard portions of the .EXE that are not
currently being used.  Then when needed, it reloads them from the
original .EXE file on disk.  OS/2 just ensures that the .EXE file has
not been modified, so the copy of the .EXE that gets loaded is
guaranteed to be the same as the original load.`
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