From: Marcus Sundberg <e94_msu@elixir.e.kth.se>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 00:57:23 +0200

Re: Snapshots - permissions

> > > It seems there is a problem with the snapshots. The shell scripts like
> > > "configure" don't have any execution permissions. THERE ARE NO execution
> > > permissions in the whole archive but the directorys.
> > >
> > > Achim
> > 
> > try doing this in the directory from where you extracted your source.
> > 
> > user@host > echo "chmod +x `find ./degas/ -type f -exec grep -l '#!/'
> > \{} \;" > ggix
> > user@host > chmod +x ggix
> 
> This is easier:
>         chmod +x $(find . |grep configure)

Easy or not, THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIXED A LONG TIME AGO!!!
I don't understand how fixing this can be a problem.

//Marcus