>  > Well, that explains it.  You can't change the permissions of a directory
>  > on a MS-DOS file system.
> 
> Thank you, I should have thought of that.
> How come that all the 'errors' I experience are MY errors? :-)

That doesn't excuse the obtuse error message.

It should have said "Operation not allowed on directory", not "Is a directory".

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ best.com