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24.5; doc for `M' in Dired

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Message #40 received at 24897 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 24897 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24897: 24.5; doc for `M' in Dired
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 00:37:57 +0200

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> On GNU/Linux, 'chmod' is documented in the Coreutils Info manual, and
> the GNU Coding Standards generally prefer Info to man pages.  So I'd
> suggest to point to the Coreutils manual first, and to the man page
> only as fallback.

Yes, good thinking.  But I pointed to the "File permissions" section
instead, which seemed more to the point.

> Actually, here's a more useful text:
>
>   Note that on MS-Windows only the `w' (write) bit is meaningful:
>   resetting it makes the file read-only.  Changing any other bit
>   has no effect on MS-Windows.

Thanks.  I'm pretty ignorant about MS-Windows so that definitely helps.

How about the attached?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

[0001-Improve-documentation-of-dired-do-chmod.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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