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From: vincent.belaiche@gmail.com (Vincent =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bela=EFche?=)
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Subject: Re: Getting some system information via VBSCript
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"Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> writes:

>   First, you're in the wrong group. This is VB.
> VBScript is microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript
>
>    If you want to check your "permissions" in
> a folder it might be easiest to just try writing
> a file and check for an access deined error. (I
> don't remember the number offhand.) Folders
> have read-only attribute. (As far as I know,
> Microsoft has never offered a coherent reason
> for that, but I think it's true from XP on.)

Thank you for your feedback.

Concerning the "read-only attribute", that is not completely true: I
have found some folders with read/write attribute and some others with
read-only. But I cannot understand the reason/meaning for the attribute.

I will try to forward this discussion to
microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript when I can subscribe to this group.

   Vincent.