Re: Tar file mode

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Aaron Smith wrote:

> I just downloaded and untar'd the latest ncurses tarball ( at 
> http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-5.7.tar.gz ) and noticed that all 
> the files are mode 444.  Yes, it's very easy to work around....but I am 
> curious to know why it is packaged up like this.  Is there a specific reason 
> the files are all read-only?  Thanks for your help,

I recall noticing that I'd overlooked that part.  It depends on which
script I used to make the tarfile.

Due to the long-names in the Ada95 directory, I make the ncurses tar-ball 
on a different machine where I don't have the release-tarball script that 
ensures the files are writable, but have my development script, which 
doesn't modify permissions.  (ncurses is the only one with long-names).

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