[Coco] attr has me stumped

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 22 October 2019 10:34:59 William Astle wrote:

> Either that or "perm" is a placeholder for "insert permission flag
> here".
>
I thought of that too William, but after the post. IMO it just confuses 
the issue the way its worded. It seems like one of us ought to be able 
to come up with a less obfuscated way to say it.

> 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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