Trouble getting write access to a file...

[Davin Pearson]

I am trying to get write access to the Emacs file dir under the MS Windows operating system
in conjunction with Cygwin.

Here is the output of the chmod command:

c:\Program Files (x86)\emacs-24.5\share\info>chmod 666 dir
chmod: changing permissions of 'dir': Permission denied

What gives?  How do I go about getting write access to the file "dir"?

[lpesc...@google.com]

Hi, Just curious, have you tried running the chmod command as administrator?

also you could try through cygwin terminal as administrator. ie cd /cygdrive/c/"Program Files (x86)"... 

and chmod 666 . once you're in that directory.