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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:57:12 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: chmod on WIn 2K
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On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 11:35:21PM +1100, Robert Mark Bram wrote:
> Howdy all!
> 
> I am using Cygwin on a Windows 2000 machine. It is the case that chmod
> should work like this because I am on a Windows machine?

Only on NTFS and if CYGWIN=ntsec.  See

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html

and

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html

Corinna

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