executable on a thumb drive

[Willy Hamra]

2008/11/18 Constantinos Maltezos <pandarsson at yahoo.com>:
> I recently tried to install a Linux program (Writer's Cafe) onto one of my
> thumb drives.  The thumb drive is, of course, formatted to vfat, which makes
> every file executable.  However, the shell script used to launch the program
> will not launch on its own; it requires that I run it as an argument to sh.
> Now, I don't want to reformat the drive because I'll be installing the Windows
> version of the same software to the same drive.
>
> My question is thus: is there a way to make the file act as though it had the
> executable bit on?  I realize this is merely an indication of sheer laziness
> on my part (I could always open up an xterm or similar and run it with sh),
> but I'd like to use it as intended - where I can just click on it after
> inserting the drive.  Am I jousting at windmills?
>

i'm not sure about this, or what exactly is the option needed, but
could it be an executable mount option? give mount an option to allow
executables on this device? maybe put this option in fstab?


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Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Co. Manager of Zeina Computers and Billy Net.