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Re: lynx-dev Problems with Bookmark file
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev Problems with Bookmark file |
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Wed, 25 Jul 2001 20:04:10 -0400 |
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On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 07:41:54PM +0000, Patrick Ash wrote:
> I seem to be having a problem removing entries from my bookmark file.
> I open the file in Lynx, and using "r" to remove the highlighted
> link, I get the message that Lynx cannot rename the temp file, and
> that the deletion failed.
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> I ran a trace, and the operative line seems to be:
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> rename(): Permission denied
> Alert!: Error renaming temporary file.
> Alert!: Bookmark deletion failed.
lynx does a lot of rather ugly pathname conversion to/from URLs (I've whittled
away at it, to make it simpler, but I don't recall testing that feature on
OS/2, so it's possible that it doesn't work simply due to bad syntax).
> I have seen the 'permission denied' message at times when using the
> mv command in makefiles. I can use it without problem from the
> command line. Any thoughts?
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> I am using 2.8.4 rel.1 on OS/2.
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> Thanks for any suggestions.
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> Pat
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