From: "Peter Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 07:10, Jesse Stockall wrote: > > I need to be able to toggle the read-only flag for some files on > > Windows. I'm able to do this with attrib.exe > > > > I created a new task (copy of chmod task) to use attrib & work only on > > windows. > > kool. > > > I think a better idea would be to modify the chmod task so that is uses > > chmod on Unix & attrib on Windows. Unfortunately there are different > > permissions available on Unix & Windows so the task would have to be > > smart enough to use -R on Windows & +w on Unix to toggle the write > > permission. > > Theres also the difficulty that some windows platforms (ie cygwin) actually > support chmod to some degree or another. So we would be blocking people who > already used chmod on win32.
Perhaps checking for existence of chmod before using attrib.exe on windows would be neat? > Pete > Cheers, Magesh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
