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By: dannel

If I launch ed as a plain user (UAC enabled) under Vista, it prints the message
"Permission Denied" and then exits. It works when I run it from a command prompt
with administrator privileges. I've tried setting TMP, TMPDIR, and HOME
as recommended. Is there something else I need to do, or is this a known bug
in ed?

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By: mz2ptc0

[quote]If I launch ed as a plain user (UAC enabled) under Vista, it prints the
message "Permission Denied" and then exits. It works when I run it from a command
prompt with administrator privileges. [/quote]
Simply continue using this workaround. One way to "fix" this bug(/feature?)
may be to make a custom build which bypasses the  official security model.

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By: raysatiro

This is not a manifest issue, it is an issue with the function that creates
a random temp file for ed. It appears the function does not check the environment
for TEMP/TMP/TMPDIR, instead writing to the root of the working directory. If
you can't run ed as admin a workaround would be to use the subst command to
assign a drive letter to your local temporary directory. You can then switch
to that directory and run ed.

[code]subst x: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Temp
x:
ed[/code]


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By: mz2ptc0

[quote]This is not a manifest issue, it is an issue with the function that creates
a random temp file for ed. It appears the function does not check the environment
for TEMP/TMP/TMPDIR, instead writing to the root of the working
directory.[\quote]

Since this is the case I decided to install the ed package with mingw and test
it in a limited user account on Windows XP SP3. The same bug occurs and the
workaround works.
...(snip)
 D:\gnwn-src\src\ed\1.5\ed-1.5-src>ed README
Permission denied

D:\gnwn-src\src\ed\1.5\ed-1.5-src>subst x: .

D:\gnwn-src\src\ed\1.5\ed-1.5-src>x:

X:\>ed README
5832
1,30l
GNU ed is a line-oriented text editor. (snip)....

It is possible that an update to ed 1.5 might fix this bug.

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