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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 01:20:39 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Using external tools KILLS permissions of ASCII files
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In-Reply-To: <20010904010029.A4947@cygbert.vinschen.de>; from cygwin@cygwin.com on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:00:29AM +0200

On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:00:29AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 12:52:11AM +0200, Andreas Eibach wrote:
> >  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*
> 
> The x-bit on 9x/ME is set _only_ by examining the beginning of the
> file. If it's containing e.g. #!/bin/perl or so, it's executable.

...except for the test for file suffixes (.exe, etc.), of course.
But that shouldn't match your problem.

Corinna

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