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On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 18:17 +0000, Mark Jose wrote: > Hmm... OK, it should have worked that way. In the properties bit again, who is > shown as the owner of the file? If it is your user name, then it should work. Yes it is james > > If it is root, then you won't have permissions to open it - which would give > that scenario. > Perhaps easiest to do as Tom said and use the command line if that is the > case. > Simply open a Konsole and type in > > sudo chmod +x /home/james/Desktop/filename.bin This just gives me a new blank line. > > and press enter - you will need to give your user password for that when you > have hit enter of course. Substitute your real user name for james and the > correct file name for the bin :) snip > You may find you would have had less problems if you had installed realplay or > whatever it is called via Adept. That should work fine with the beeb I > assume. I just tried this. It said "There was an error committing changes. Possibly there was a problem downloading some packages or or the commit would break packages." Thanks james kilty http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html