Re: [Lynx-dev] Building with VC-2008

[halasz]

>>>> 2008/09/22 09:58 -0400, Thomas Dickey >>>>
offhand, I recall that the Unix-style permissions don't map to Windows - no 
group- and other-bits) so chmod won't match (though the owner bits "work").  
It's stuff like that, not as obvious. 
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That is true of the original filesystem, but with NT much was changed:
there are permission bits for reading, writing, modifying, name-changing,
deleting, ... and access-control lists & groups.  It looks more like VMS.