From: andrew AT waitaki DOT otago DOT ac DOT nz (Andrew Thompson)
Subject: Re: Can't set execute permission ?
10 Aug 1998 05:48:06 -0700
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To: John Darrington <j DOT darrington AT student DOT murdoch DOT edu DOT au>
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I think you nead to set the CYGWIN32 environment variable to 'ntea'. This
allows all the permissions to work. (I may be wrong but I think this is
only recommended for an NTFS NT partition)

Andrew Thompson

On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, John Darrington wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have just down-loaded B19.
> 
> I unpack a tar, ready for building.  But the configure script comes out as permission 644.
> I do "chmod --verbose 755 configure" and it says "Setting configure to 755 --succeeded" ( or 
> words to that effect ) .  Yet it hasn't changed a thing.
> 
> What's going on?
> 
> 
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