[Coco] attr has me stumped

[Wayne Campbell]

perm is the term used in the syntax definition.

attr perm -perm

accepted permissions are e pe w pw r pr for files. The ones with p are
public, the ones without p are owner. There is also d and s. D is for
directories, and I believe s is for shared.

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 8:18 AM Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

> "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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