[Coco] attr has me stumped

[Bill Pierce]

"perm" is probably a bad short version for "parameter"
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: William Astle <lost at l-w.ca>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tue, Oct 22, 2019 10:35 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] attr has me stumped

Either that or "perm" is a placeholder for "insert permission flag here".

On 2019-10-22 8:23 a.m., Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 October 2019 09:45:49 Walter Zambotti wrote:
> 
>> Ok ok!
>>
>> Not sure why the help mentions -perm and perm opts but they are not
>> necessary.
>>
>> attr r63 e
>>
>> did the trick!
> 
> And that sounds like the attr entry in helpmsg needs editing to correct
> it. Perhaps attr has been modified somewhere in the fog of time? IDK.
> ISTR it expects a space delimited set of strings, e pe w pw r pr,
> putting a - in front of one of those turns it off.
> 
>> On 10/22/19 9:34 PM, Walter Zambotti wrote:
>>> Ok I give up!!!
>>>
>>> How do you use attr in Nitros9 to change the file permissions.
>>>
>>> I have tried
>>>
>>> attr r63 perm e
>>>
>>> attr r63 p e
>>>
>>> attr r63 -perm e
>>>
>>> attr r63 -p e
>>>
>>> Nothing changes the permission!!!
>>>
>>> Walter
> 
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
> 


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