From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Andreas Eibach" To: Subject: Re: Using external tools KILLS permissions of ASCII files Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 15:42:00 -0000 Message-id: <019e01c134cb$11d287e0$76c606d5@andreas> X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00079.html I wrote: > The only way out seems to be sticking to Cygwin tools _only_ for editing, > even 'vi' if you insist. > But that's would be a bad compromise... A little add-on to this: I just checked a -rwxr-x-r-x file, edited it with vi, and modified it a bit. After saving the file the original permissions were gone and the file was at -rw-r--r--. How can I change this (or restore the original permissions) at least a _little_ on W9x? Really no way to just _keep_ the original permissions of a file? *Sigh* Andreas -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/