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Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 15:39:36 +0100
From: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com>
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To: "Turner, Nicholas" <Nicholas DOT Turner AT invensys DOT com>
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Subject: Re: CHMOD - Still having problems !!
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Do you use NTFS or FAT ?

Turner, Nicholas wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 	I have checked the cygwin mailing lists and read the relevant docs
> but still have problem getting chmod to work on my NT4 SP6 PC.
> 
> I have set the cygwin environment variable as below:
> 
> $ cat cygwin.bat
> @echo off
> D:
> chdir \Program Files\Cygnus\bin
> set CYGWIN=binmode ntsec tty
> set PATH=d:/Progra~!/Cygnus/bin
> set HOME=d:/Progra~1/Cygnus/home
> set VISUAL=notepad
> set EDITOR=notepad
> bash --login -i
> 
> Now whenever I 'touch' a file, e.g. 
> 
> 	touch test.file
> 
> ...the permissions are set thus
> 
> N_Turner AT PC435 ~/temp
> $ touch tmp
> 
> N_Turner AT PC435 ~/temp
> $ ls -l
> total 0
> -rwxrwxrwx    1 N_Turner Administ        0 Feb  7 14:22 tmp
> 
> Do anybody have any idea why this is ? I hope I haven't missed something in
> the setup. By the way I'm using version 1.3.9.



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