OHHHHH!  Then chmod involves an already decompressed file.  I wasn't 
aware of that but I believe it.  I knew scanmodem.gz. was a zipped file, 
but I did not know it had to be uzipped before chmod, whatever it's 
function, could act upon it.  Thanks I will definitely try that.

On 21 Jan 2005 at 11:45, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> >  HAD a problem with the following sequence of commands. mkdir winmodem
> >  cd winmodem
>  > mcopy a:scandisk.gz.*******the file didn't exist****yes it did
> 
> You missed one step.
> gunzip scanmodem.gz
> 
>  > chmod +x scanmodem
>  > ./scanmodem Looking at the note above you
> >  can see the file couldn't be found. The solution, impossible as it
> >  would seem was that I deleted the director winDmodem I had
> >  accidentally created. I tried the mcopy again and got no error.
> >  AHHAA! Tried a dir command in winmodem, which previously produced
> >  nothing, and bingo the filev was now there. I wouldn't have believed
> >  it had someone told me that was the problem. Now there is another
> >  problem the chmod command fails to find attributes because it can't
> >  find any or the file. Anybody know what is wrong there? Could x not
> >  be installed/configured or something else.
> >
> >
> >
> Even simpler - scanmodem does not exist. You forgot to uncompress 
> scanmodem.gz to scanmodem. So there is no file "scanmodem" to make 
> executable.
> 
> Mikkel
> 
> 
> 




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