From: Damian Yerrick <Bullshitd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullshit>
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Subject: Re: gcc-2.95.2 + bnu-2.9.5 cross compiler?
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:48:33 +0200 (IST), Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>
>On 14 Mar 2000, Nate Eldredge wrote:
>
>> Info-zip on Unix does store the permission bits.
>
>The problem is Info-zip on DOS/Windows, not on Unix.  For some reason, 
>Zip ignores the execute bit.  It probably assumes that since DOS/Windows 
>don't have this bit stored in their filesystems, it isn't worth worrying 
>about.  (Personally, I consider this to be a bug.)  When you unzip the 
>files on Unix, the shell scripts lose their exec bit.

So tell the Info-ZIP maintainers to set the execute bit of *.EXE,
*.COM, *.BAT, and *.SH

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