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- From: evanc@uuisis.isis.org (Evan Champion)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Executable Flag
- Message-ID: <BVBwTB1w164w@uuisis.isis.org>
- Date: Sun, 08 Nov 92 01:12:34 GMT
- Sender: bbs@uuisis.isis.org
- Organization: International Shared Information Service (Ottawa)
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- Something that has always annoyed me is that OS/2 will only run a program if
- it has a .EXE/.COM/.CMD/.BAT extension. With no file naming requirements
- with HPFS this seems to be a needless limitation. It really annoyed me
- today because I couldn't get KSH to run a script file until I renamed the
- script to a CMD file. Why not just have an executable flag; it would be
- automatically turned on for any .EXE/.COM/.CMD/.BAT and would be optionally
- set for other files, much like chmod for Unix. It shouldn't be too hard; I
- don't know about how attributes are saved with HPFS but there should be a
- way to put it either in the file attributes or extended attributes for the
- file. This along with case sensitivity for filenames would really make my
- day.
-
- Evan
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