[Coco] attr has me stumped

[Wayne Campbell]

Oh, permission preceded by a - turns that permission off.

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 8:39 AM Wayne Campbell <asa.rand at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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