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newbie question: everything is executable


Hello,
I've looked around the FAQ, guides, and web, but don't see the answer yet.
I just installed Cygwin on a Win98 box, but I've used UNIX for years.  The
guides say that chmod only lets you modify the +w attribute, and that the
mount table can determine the attributes for all files in the mounted tree.
However, every file I create in my $HOME (or below) is executable upon
creation.  E.g., if I do the following:
 $> cat > foo
 $> echo $PATH
 $> ctrl-D
and then type "foo", I get my path.  I am not doing a "source" on "foo",
just typing "foo". On any system I've used previously, text files are not
automatically executable - you can source them to exec their contents, but
to make them executable you had to give them the +x attribute.  How can I
remove the x attribute from file in my directory?  And prevent them from
creating with that attribute in the first place?

Thanks,
Tom



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