bug#24897: 24.5; doc for `M' in Dired

[Stefan Kangas]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> On GNU/Linux, 'chmod' is documented in the Coreutils Info manual, and
> the GNU Coding Standards generally prefer Info to man pages.  So I'd
> suggest to point to the Coreutils manual first, and to the man page
> only as fallback.

Yes, good thinking.  But I pointed to the "File permissions" section
instead, which seemed more to the point.

> Actually, here's a more useful text:
>
>   Note that on MS-Windows only the `w' (write) bit is meaningful:
>   resetting it makes the file read-only.  Changing any other bit
>   has no effect on MS-Windows.

Thanks.  I'm pretty ignorant about MS-Windows so that definitely helps.

How about the attached?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

0001-Improve-documentation-of-dired-do-chmod.patch
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