Todd Whitesel writes:
> >  > 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".

That would be very hard to do. Have a look at what chmod has to work
with to see why.

Perry