On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Simon Wong wrote:

> I have downloaded the source code for Java Cookbook from O'Reilly
> (fabulous book!) but am having strange things happen when I UNZIP the
> source.
> 
> After unzipping two directories are created in the current directory one
> called META-INF and the "javacook".
> 
> When I 'ls -la' it says that I am the owner and that the group is
> correct.  Also the permissions are set OK...
> 
> 
>     lonewolf: /usr/local/java/books
>     $ lsa
>     total 1528
>        4 drwxr-sr-x    4 sjw      staff        4096 Oct 24 23:23 .
>        4 drwxr-sr-x    4 sjw      staff        4096 Oct 24 22:57 ..
>        4 drw-r--r--    2 sjw      staff        4096 Oct 13 19:22
>     META-INF
>        4 drw-r--r--   43 sjw      staff        4096 Oct 13 19:21
>     javacook
>     1512 -rw-rw-r--    1 sjw      staff     1542109 Oct 24 23:14
>     javacooksrc.zip
> 
> 
> But when I try and cd into either of the directories I get an error:

You need execute permission bit set to be able to change into a directory.

chmod u+x javacook

Benno

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