Re: How to set umask, owner, and group for newly created file under Win2K?

["Ehud Karni" <ehud@unix.mvs.co.il>]

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On 21 Dec 2003 10:19:18 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il> wrote:
>
> > Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 23:43:29 -0800
> > From: Subhashis Mohanty <smohanty@mohanty.com>
> >
> > . emacs-20.7
> > . Win2K SP4
> > . Open new file via C-x C-f
> > . Save file via C-x C-s
> >
> > Uunder emacs the file perms are wrong, turning the execute bit on for
> > the user, and changing the username to Administrator.
>
> Summary: you can't have that on Windows, unless you use Emacs compiled
> as a Cygwin program.  You could work around this by invoking Cygwin
> ports of chown/chmod from Emacs.

There is a Cygwin Emacs (version 21.2, ported by Joe Buehler) that works
both on terminal and X, but not on the native Windows screen. This will
do all you want.

Ehud.


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