[GH-ISSUE #12] Library raises a misleading error when the file isn't writeable #10

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Originally created by @jmcnamara on GitHub (Oct 19, 2015).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/jmcnamara/libxlsxwriter/issues/12

Originally assigned to: @jmcnamara on GitHub.

The following misleading errors are usually generated when the output file or directory isn't writeable:

cd libxlsxwriter
make examples
./examples/hello
# Creates hello_world.xlsx

chmod -w hello_world.xlsx
./examples/hello

[ERROR][packager.c:62]: Error opening zip file for xlsx
[ERROR][workbook.c:1108]: Memory allocation failed.

Originally created by @jmcnamara on GitHub (Oct 19, 2015). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/jmcnamara/libxlsxwriter/issues/12 Originally assigned to: @jmcnamara on GitHub. The following misleading errors are usually generated when the output file or directory isn't writeable: ``` cd libxlsxwriter make examples ./examples/hello # Creates hello_world.xlsx chmod -w hello_world.xlsx ./examples/hello [ERROR][packager.c:62]: Error opening zip file for xlsx [ERROR][workbook.c:1108]: Memory allocation failed. ```