[X Newbies] Ownership and Permissions on emailed files

[Michael Winter]

On Saturday, November 23, 2002, at 02:45  PM, Ian Sights wrote:

> Does any OS other than X check the Ownership and Permissions of a 
> file? I emailed a file to a printer and they forwarded it to the 
> people actually making the pens and I got the message back that the 
> file was read only.

Did they try opening as Read Only, then using Save As... to save the 
file somewhere else? In many cases this fixes the problem, particularly 
where files think they are (or really are) a template.

-Mike