File permissions?

[Karl F. Larsen]

Jim Byrnes wrote:
> I've been using Ubuntu for about two weeks now and am starting to get 
> used to it.  However, coming from an OS/2\Windows world file permissions 
> seem to be giving me some grief.
> 
> Maybe if someone could tell me how to do a couple of specific tasks it 
> would become clearer to me.  I have Jedit loaded on all three of my 
> OS's. I have modified some mode files on the other OS's I would like to 
> use on Ubuntu.  I copied them to a shared folder on Ubuntu but I can't 
> copy them to /usr/share/jedit/modes which is where Jedit will look for them.
> 
> In that same vein, if I wanted to edit one of those files with Jedit how 
> could I get Jedit to open it for editing?
> 
> Thanks,  Jim
> 
	Two things:

1. What is jedit? Do you really mean gedit?

2. If you have jedit really, you just tell it where your files 
are. Just as you must do with gedit.

3. I will go to Google and see if jedit exits.


73 Karl


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