Best way to copy files without Read-Only option

[Ken Kinder]

chmod is a Unix thing. NT does weird stuff for file permissions. If I were
you, I would just say you have to have OS permissions on both ends.

Olav Benum wrote:

> Greetings!
>
> I am writing a function to copy a directory-tree under Windows NT 4.0.
>
> However, I have the problem that when the source is "Read-only" the new
> file
> is also read-only, creating problems later.
>
> I have tried os.chmod( filename, 0777), but with no effect.
>
> The solution should also work if I am not the owner of the original
> file.
>
> (there seems to be many different copy-functions, with different options
>
> for timestamps etc., but none that doesn't copy the file-permission  :-(
>
> Thanks!
> Olav
>
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