<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>OK. Thanks to you both :-)</div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha@web.de><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Victor Ivrii <vivrii@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Meho R. <meho_r@yahoo.com>; tex-live@tug.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Mon, July 5, 2010 11:12:45 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [tex-live] About executable files...<br></font><br>
On 5 July 2010 Victor Ivrii wrote:<br><br> > On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Meho R. <<a ymailto="mailto:meho_r@yahoo.com" href="mailto:meho_r@yahoo.com">meho_r@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br> > ><br> > ><br> > > While doing a backup, I accidentaly removed executable bit from<br> > > whole TeXLive folder recursively, which naturally means none of<br> > > the programs (latex, pdflatex, xelatex...) don't work. My<br> > > question is: is it safe and enough to select all files in<br> > > TeXLive2009/bin/x86_64-linux folder and make them all executable?<br> > <br> > Yes, except xindy.mem as all other files are either executables or<br> > symlinks to executables some of which are in the same directory and<br> > some in<br> > ../../texmf-dist/scripts/ and its subdirectories<br><br>It doesn't hurt if the executable flag is set for xindy.mem. Whether<br>it's set or not only has an impact on the
error message you get when<br>you try to execute this file. But this file isn't supposed to be<br>executed at all.<br><br>You can run the TL live sytem from a USB stick even though all files<br>are executable on a FAT32 file system.<br><br>Regards,<br> Reinhard<br><br>-- <br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-3373112<br>Marschnerstr. 25<br>D-30167 Hannover mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:reinhard.kotucha@web.de" href="mailto:reinhard.kotucha@web.de">reinhard.kotucha@web.de</a><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is
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