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Old 11-14-2003
Flyguy Flyguy is offline
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Making files readonly with vi?
Hi,

I'm new at this whole Unix thing, but definately learning (lots of fun)...

and I was wondering - how do you make a file read-only with vi? I don't mean how do you load up vi in read-only mode, but how do you save a file (or flag a file, or whatever) in vi to read-only? How do you make it not read-only after it has been set to read-only? Thanks a lot!