Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <019e01c134cb$11d287e0$76c606d5@andreas> From: "Andreas Eibach" To: Subject: Re: Using external tools KILLS permissions of ASCII files Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 00:52:11 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2501.0001 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2501.0001 I wrote: > The only way out seems to be sticking to Cygwin tools _only_ for editing, > even 'vi' if you insist. > But that's would be a bad compromise... A little add-on to this: I just checked a -rwxr-x-r-x file, edited it with vi, and modified it a bit. After saving the file the original permissions were gone and the file was at -rw-r--r--. How can I change this (or restore the original permissions) at least a _little_ on W9x? Really no way to just _keep_ the original permissions of a file? *Sigh* Andreas -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/