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Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

Title:DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90
Notice:See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit
Moderator:STAR::VATNE
Created:Mon Oct 30 1989
Last Modified:Mon Dec 31 1990
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3726
Total number of notes:19516

2608.0. "NOTEPAD" by SHALOT::GELBER (taken by a photograph of you . . .) Fri Apr 13 1990 07:28

A question about NOTEPAD:  

When a user opened NOTEPAD for the first time, it came up "Read Only," and
a message displayed to the effect that the journal file couldn't be
created.

The user didn't create or save anything that day, and tried it a few days
later, with the same results and error message.  He opened a file, 
entered text, and saved it, and it all worked fine.

Our question: what could cause the read-only and lack of journal file?

Thanks,

Edie

P.S. I tried to search on title and keyword for this topic, but each search
took over an hour, with no results.  Sorry if I'm duplicating material.

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2608.1STAR::ORGOVANVince OrgovanThu Apr 19 1990 19:2517
    
    According to the notepad developer:
    

> When a user opened NOTEPAD for the first time, it came up "Read Only," and
> a message displayed to the effect that the journal file couldn't be
> created.

Right. I believe the exact message text this user saw was:

	"Cannot create journal file in this directory."

In other words, they had no permission to open a file in this directory.

Perhaps not the most informative error message in the world,
but I would have thought most users would get the drift.  :-)