Permission Denied

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Stephen Grant Brown <s_g_brown at bemail.com.au>:

>> By "go back into ..." do you mean via a 'cmd' prompt?  Or through
>> the graphical file explorer?
>
> I use the graphical file explorer to make the file  visible on screen 
> and then I double left click msysDTK-1.0.1.exe.
> Vista then asks me if I want to run the file. I reply yes.
> Where do I instal the file given that install.sh is in 
> c:/soft/downloads and I have not touched default.sh or custom.sh?

Ahh, yeah, the graphical "explorer" is way different, so your experience
there is quite (unfortunately) irrelevant to what we need to do.

>> If you go in through the cmd prompt, does it STILL ask this of
>> you when you try to execute the .exe?
>>
> I use msys cmd prompt, cd to c:/soft/downloads.

Well, I was even thinking about "cmd", not the msys commandline.
But msys should be good too....

[snip]
> chmod a+w msys*
>
> does not change file permisions

what about "chmod a+x msysDTK-1.0.1.exe" ??

> msysDTK-1.0.1.exe =>
>
> sh: ./msysDTK-1.0.1.exe permission denied
>
> ie I cannot execute msysDTK-1.0.1.exe via mys command prompt
>
> Yours Sincerely Stephen Grant Brown

-derek

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