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From: "JC Oosthuizen" <jc.oosthuizen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Can't start an exe downloaded with wget
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> Hi,
>
> When I download a Windows exe from a random site with wget on a NTFS
> partition I can not start that exe. As a workaround I now download it on
> a FAT32 partition.
>
> Is there something I can do about this? Did I miss an option?

Perharps the permissions got messed up.

try chmod 755 <downloaded file>

This should give you permissions to execute the file just downloaded.

FAT32 does not support permissions and any file that ends with a .exe
will have execute permissions. This is not the case for NTFS
partitions.

>
> Regards,
> Frank
>
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