[plt-scheme] Re: Writing directly to a floppy

Does that work on your machines?

-----Original Message-----
From: Dor Kleiman 
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 3:28 PM
To: John Kozak; plt-scheme at list.cs.brown.edu
Subject: RE: [plt-scheme] Re: Writing directly to a floppy

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I definitely have permissions to my floppy; it was right after I
formatted it :)
My user is defined as a local administrator at work, and at home is the
only administrator.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Kozak [mailto:jk at xylema.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 3:21 PM
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Subject: [plt-scheme] Re: Writing directly to a floppy

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>  > (open-output-file "\\\\.\\A:")
>  . open-output-file: cannot open output file: "\\.\A:" (Access is
denied.; errno=5)


It's a permissions thing. Have you tried this as administrator?

John