From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: gcc-2.95.2 + bnu-2.9.5 cross compiler?
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:50:49 +0200
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On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:

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

Not good enough: a shell script doesn't need to have a .sh extension.

But this problem is not something Zip should care about on the
application level.  Instead, it should let the library do the job.
The DJGPP version of `stat' already knows how to identify executable
files as such, and that includes shell scripts, with or without the
.sh extension.  All Zip should do is record the mode bits returned by
`stat' in the archive, like it does on Unix, without masking off the
execute bit.