Writing over read-only files

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From: Noahal Mundt
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 1990 02:59

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Does anyone know of a way to keep emacs from writing over
a read-only file when you are a super-user?  I would at least
like to warned before writing over the file .. is this
possible?  Thanks for any input!

Noahal Mundt
Internet: mundt@b11.ingr.com

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From: mundt@infonode.ingr.com (Noahal Mundt)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Writing over read-only files
Summary: Super-user writing over read-only file
Keywords: read only - super-user
Message-ID: <1990Dec29.025959.15659@infonode.ingr.com>
Date: 29 Dec 90 02:59:59 GMT
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Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL
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