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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