Re: chmod in cygwin

2010-01-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/06/2010 07:54 PM, Linda Armelle Nzumotcha Tchoumkam wrote: My program is "ab.exe" included in "C:/Program Files/Flow" I attempt with : "chmod a+x /cygdrive/c/Program/flow" and "chmod a+x /cygdrive/c/Program/flow/ab.exe", Operator error. If "ab.exe" is in "C:/Program Files/Flow" then the

Re: chmod in cygwin

2010-01-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/04/2010 06:03 PM, rmpbklyn wrote: have you used chmod before or is it your first time? this is determine what type of answer to post give a screenshot link to further describe Let's all give Linda a chance to absorb the responses so far and follow-up with the list if more direction is ne

Re: chmod in cygwin

2010-01-04 Thread rmpbklyn
have you used chmod before or is it your first time? this is determine what type of answer to post give a screenshot link to further describe Linda Armelle Nzumotcha Tchoumkam wrote: > > > > I am a new user of cygwin in windows xp. > I want to run an executable program connected to cygwin. >

Re: chmod in cygwin

2010-01-03 Thread René Berber
Linda Armelle Nzumotcha Tchoumkam wrote: > > I am a new user of cygwin in windows xp. > I want to run an executable program connected to cygwin. > I use the command chmod as ( “[ugoa]*<[-+=]<[rwxXst]*|[ugo]>>+” write “chmod > a+x /C/Program/flow”) > But I don’t get to the executable program. I re

Re: chmod in cygwin

2010-01-03 Thread Rosario D. Contarino
If it can be of any help, why don't you try to execute some other programs instead of chmod and see if you get the same error, for example instead of "chmod a+x /C/Program/flow" something like "ls -d /C/Program/flow" and see if works. If it does then we can say something can be wrong with chmod, i

RE: chmod in cygwin shell

2002-09-24 Thread Zieg, Mark
> I cant set the x bit to my files. I am the user who installed cygwin and who > dowloaded thee files which i want > to make executeable now. This almost certainly isn't the right long-term solution, but if you just want a quick fix, you might try this: ziegm $ touch newfile ziegm $ ls -la

RE: chmod in cygwin shell

2002-09-24 Thread Mario Ohnewald
I cant see any atributes ;/ $ mount D:\Progra~1\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type sys em (binmode) D:\Progra~1\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type user (textmode) D:\Progra~1\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type user (textmode) D:\Progra~1\cygwin on / type user (textmode) c: on /cygd

Re: chmod in cygwin shell

2002-09-24 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Mario Ohnewald wrote: > Hello! > > I cant set the x bit to my files. I am the user who installed cygwin and who > dowloaded thee files which i want > to make executeable now. > > $ ls -All > total 1698 > -rw-r--r--1 install None 1737960 Feb 15 2002 rpm > ---> not e

Re: chmod in cygwin

2002-02-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 09:33:32AM -0800, John Miller wrote: >I hope this isn't a stupid question. When I try to use chmod, it >doesn't do what I expect. http://cygwin.com/lists.html#see-above http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC45 cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscrib

Re: chmod in cygwin

2002-02-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 12:45:03PM -0500, Roland Glenn McIntosh wrote: > It's my understanding that whether a file is executable or not in cygwin is >determined by the following: > > - file extension (.com, .bat, .exe) > - the first line of the file (#!/bin/bash) > > I know of no other conditio

Re: chmod in cygwin

2002-02-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 09:33:32AM -0800, John Miller wrote: > > I hope this isn't a stupid question. When I try to use chmod, it doesn't do > what I expect. > See below. Am I doing something wrong? I'm running Windows NT 4.0 sp6. I've > tried with Windows 2000 with same results. http://cygwin

Re: chmod in cygwin

2002-02-04 Thread Roland Glenn McIntosh
It's my understanding that whether a file is executable or not in cygwin is determined by the following: - file extension (.com, .bat, .exe) - the first line of the file (#!/bin/bash) I know of no other conditions which would make a file executable in cygwin, but if there were, it would be alo