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From: "Andreas Eibach" <a DOT eibach AT gmx DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Using external tools KILLS permissions of ASCII files
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 00:52:11 +0200
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 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



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