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From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>
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Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 18:32:10 +0200
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Subject: Re: "chmod a+x filename" shows no effect on W2K
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> Peter Buckley schrieb am 2001-10-09 12:16:

Set CYGWIN=tty andwhatyoulike
as systemwide environment variable so it is accessible by 
all processes.

>Also be aware that chmod may sporadically not work and 
>then work. Just for no reason, and it isn't repeatable. 

Never seen such a behaviour.

Gerrit

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