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From: jms@romana.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: unexecutables
Summary: Check for R and E protection
Message-ID: <963@romana.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 20 Mar 90 05:19:32 GMT
References: <27276@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: jms@romana.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Organization: BT Tymnet, San Jose, CA
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In article <27276@cup.portal.com> phorgan@cup.portal.com (Patrick John Horgan) writes:
>I had another strange thing happen to me. 
>the executables in the first partition were not 
>recognized by the operating sytem as executable!
>My first partition on the 2000 is FFS.

The old file system completely ignored all the protection bits except for
the D bit (for Deleteable files).  FFS honors more bits.  Files with the
R bit off are not readable.  Files with the E bit off are not executable.

Do a LIST on the unexecutable object files.  If they don't say R and E, then
that is your problem.  Use the PROTECT command to set the right bits.
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