I have Win2k, and the R/O attribute is copied over. However, I doubt that is a good reason for what leads to the original question in this thread. Changing the attribute once and not worrying about having to do it in the application over and over seems too easy.

The only reason I can think of for doing what the originator of the question is doing, is using a poor data protection scheme. Make your files read-only and hope that your users are not versed enough to know how to change it. Then you can undo and redo the attribute in the app. (I did not say a good reason remember, just a reason.)

Alan

Only with WIN98 and older. Newer Windows-versions does not copy the R/O-attribute, it is reset to off.
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>NB! Maybe the change was done later than Win98, I have little wxperience with WIN2000, NT and ME.
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>>Edgar,
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>>If someone copied a file from a CD to disk, the file would be read only.
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>>Harry