From: PicoDyne AT ieee DOT org (Brian Smith) Subject: CHMOD not changing mode 7 Dec 1998 10:23:48 -0800 Message-ID: <001401be21ed$d88f5370$2cf02299.cygnus.gnu-win32@fred> Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Hello all you knowledgable ones! Using cygwin-b20.1 on NT4SP3. I am trying to change the mode of a file to 777 using "chmod -v 777 output.dat" Chmod reports: "mode of output.dat changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx)" But the file mode does not change, as evidenced by an ls -l. Any tricks or simple solutions? Thanks, Brian - Brian S. Smith - PicoDyne Corporation - Annapolis Engineering Office -(v)410-266-8828 (fax)410-266-8872 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".