vfat and other windows file formats have no concept of the bits thatumm, yeah that's kind of what I would have said, if I had read everything. Sorry I'm tired. 3 hours of sleep will do that to you. :) But I have had problems with the java bin file and executable stuff. Sothere you go.
ext3 and standard unix file systems use to mark files as executable and
so forth. Thus no file on a windows drive is ever executable to linux. In some ways this is a safety feature since windows drives have no
security features. It may be possible to convince linux that every file
is executable on a fat32 partition, but I've never seen this. You could
use umsdos on top of fat32 which adds some thunking layers to implement
unix permissions, but there will be complications with unix long-file
names not generating fat32 long file names and vice versa.
Art
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