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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Setting file bits (under 1.3)
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From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
Date: 20 Mar 91 01:31:35 GMT
References: <6727@khaki14.UUCP>
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In article <6727@khaki14.UUCP> earl@motcid.UUCP (Brent R. Earl) writes:
>I was playing through my directories on my a2000 when I found some amigados
>files that had been set "sarwed"  these files would run without the "execute"
>command.

That's because they had the "s" bit (=> Script) set.
To set the script bit on your favorite file, use

protect filename +s

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