[ILUG] Notepad

[Stephane Dudzinski]

Problem might be the control+M carriage return which are done by
windows, did you try to open the file with vi and see how it looks like
? (i presume of course that ls -la file returns r-x permissions)

Steph

On Wed, 2001-11-07 at 11:46, James.Chambers at irishlife.ie wrote:
> if I create a text file in notepad on windows, is it possible to make it
> executable on linux, I tried chmod +x and changing the owner of the file. No
> matter what I did it wouldn't execute for me. 
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> James
> 
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