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Re: A question of permissions.

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From: RussM
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 00:00
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In article <pudv1t0acfbsk1j3nvptjlkr9fd803kqom@4ax.com>, Richard Tibbetts
<richard@primepeace.ltd.uk> writes
>I'm fairly embarrassed to ask this, but I can't see why I'm having the
>following problem (and as it's the weekend I don't know who else to
>ask!):
>
>$ who am i
>cyborg     ttyp3        Nov 25 12:40
>$ id
>uid=200(cyborg) gid=100(cyborg)
>groups=100(cyborg),50(group),102(cybdev)
>$ pwd
>/u3/cyborg45/bin
>$ l runonline
>-rwx--x--x   1 cyborg45 cyborg       211 Nov 24 09:34 runonline
>$ type runonline
>runonline is hashed (./runonline)
>$ runonline
>/bin/ksh: ./runonline: cannot open
>$
>
>Why won't it run the script runonline? 
>
>Many thanks in advance!
Can you cat it ?
run file ./runonline to see what file type it thinks it is.

One possibility is if you've transferred it from a Windoze/DOS box it has ^M on the
end of each line. That tends to screw scripts up a treat.
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Subject: Re: A question of permissions.
Date: 2000/11/25
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