Handy explanation and it makes sense. I found out my problem is still getting the file from either the floppy or the windows side of this beast. Maybe when I get it into linux, then I can gunzip it and proceed. I just can't make mcopy work. In my home directory I can look to windows to temp to the file. I can find it but not copy it to linux. I have been in computers since radio shack came out with it's first 4k system for the public. It's frustating that I can't even copy a file from one location to another.
> > > 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. > > > > > > > Well, you were trying to run chmod on scanmodem, but the file scanmodem > is not the same as scanmodem.gz. So chmod failed. When you uncompress > the file using gunzip, it changes the name of the file as part of the > process. It normaly restores the origional name of the file. Thus > <file>.gz becomes <file>, <file>.tgz becomes <file>.tar, and so on. > (While you could have run "chmod +x scanmodem.gz" and it would have > worked, it doesn't realy make sence to make a compressed file executable.) > > chmode changes the "mode" of the file. While Windows uses the extension > of a file to determine if it is executable, Linux uses the mode of the > file. And because Linux is designed to be multi-user, you actualy have 3 > levels of "mode". You have the mode for the "owner" of the file, the > mode for the "group" of the file, and the mode for everyone else. This > allows you do do things like have a file that can only be run by the > "owner", can be written and read by the "owner", users in the same group > as the file, and can be read by everyone. > >
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