Lacking Natural Simplicity

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Why does Cygwin unzip create executables that can't be executed outside Cygwin?

T. Kurt Bond

2012-07-06 19:43

When I unzip a MS Windows emacs distribution using the Cygwin unzip and try to execute addpm with the MS Windows Explorer as the same user, why do I get an error about not having the correct protections to execute the file?

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