On 06 May 2005, Jon Dowland wrote: >Laura Melton wrote: >>Thanks for asking this question; I hadn't realized it was possible to >>remove the pesky executable permissions, so I hadn't even tried to find >>out how to do it! > >It's not generally useful to do so, however - if it's a script, you >don't need +x to pass it as an argument to the interpreter, and you can >do the same thing with an ELF binary by passing the path as an argument >to the loader, afaik.
This is true, but I'm more concerned about aesthetics than utility. I merely don't want every file on my NTFS partitions showing up in green. Shallow? Maybe. :-) Laura -- ASCII silly question, get a silly ANSI. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]