Re: genopt.com/getcolor.h

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> src/getcolor.h is downloaded from CVS as being executable files.

Unfortunately, this can happen occasionally.  The permissions (including 
the 'x' bit) of a file in CVS are inherited from those of the working 
file at initial check-in.  If that was done from a Linux box, but with 
the files mounted on a FAT filesystem (which tends to report each and 
every file as "executable" by default), the 'x' bit

They are stored as the permissions of the RCS archive on the CVS server 
--- which we can't change via CVS commands.  A support request to SF.net 
staff is underway.

> src/genopt.com is hightlighted on my system as being executable but isn't so 
> listed using "ls".  

That's between you and your system configuration to discuss --- 
highlighting is a configurable feature of 'ls'.

> Perhaps the "com" extension is some old standard for executable files?

It's old, but still used.  *.com is the original type of executables in 
MS-DOS --- *.exe came later.