I've had the same problem. Funny thing is that if you restart your  
machine it'll work normally again for a while.

Mark

>This is the version of winsound i am using:
>MIT Csound: 3.477 (Mar 16 1998)
>
>when i compile files, they now come out as read-only.  today is the
>first day that this has happened.  the files i compiled yesterday  
>are
>not read-only.  the only difference is now i am using different  
>orc/sco
>files.  i have never had problems with csound generating  read-only
>files before.  it doesnt really bother me.  now i have another step  
>to
>take care of before compiling another file with the same name.  i  
>have
>just never known an exe file to randomly change its code for no  
>apparant
>reason.
>
>thought id let you guys know
>pete