>>On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Anthony Barbachan wrote:
>>
>>>You can sort of do this already with Midnight Commander, which uses a
>>>virtual filesystem allowing transparent access to archives and network
>>>resources.
>>
>>That works well, but keep in mind if the "x" permission bit is on
>>the file, midnight interprets it as a binary executable and tries
>>to run it with bash instead of interpreting it as a zip file...
>>;o(
>>
>
>Strange, sometimes GNU leaves the execution bit on their archives but MC
>still goes into them without any problems. Perhaps its an option or a
>version difference.
It depends on if the file extention, or perhaps even the results
of a 'file' command registers a configured file association, as
well as the permissions on the file, and the filesystem that it
resides on. DOS files for example always show as rwxr-xr-x and
you have to mount with a different umask to be able to view FAT
filesystems easily.
They'll likely fix it sometime...
-- Mike A. Harris - Computer Consultant - Linux advocateLinux software galore: http://freshmeat.net
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