problems with changing stats and such

[Hooahguy]

so my friend wanted to know how he could see everything on the map without a spy, as he could in .80x. i told him to go into the EBBS and delete the ; before the perfect_spy command. he did that, but it woludnt let him save the changes. it said that the filename and path was incorrect. (he tried to overwrite) when i tried todo it, same thing. i went to the EDU and tried to change a stat of the Cohors IMperatoria, wich i knew would never come. same thing. woludnt let me save. hes running visa, (im running XP)
does that have something to do with it?

[Moosemanmoo]

couldn't just type toggle_fow in the command console?

[Hooahguy]

ya, but you cant see enemy units and building and such without the perfect_spy command enabled in the EBBS

[Tellos Athenaios]

It might be you're working on a read-only file. You should remove that attribute - either through the context menu of windows explorer; or by saving a copy of the file, and editing the copy. The original can be kept as back up, the copy can then be used instead of the original.

[Hooahguy]

and that can be acheived my naming the old EEBS as EBBScopy nd the new one as the EBBS....
but will he have to do that for every thing he wants to edit? thats annoying... glad i dont have a read-only text.....

[Tellos Athenaios]

As said you can also remove the read-only attribute through the context (if you right click something and see a new menu) in windows explorer. (But you don't get your back-up this way, so that might be a bit difficult should you mess up.)

You will have to do this for every read-only file you want to edit, yes... Read-only is a sort-of lock which can be applied for various reasons, but is most often a side-effect. (It can be the result of using some archive-format for instance.)