fpxfer export to a file - permissions/ownership

[Jay R. Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nancy Palmquist via Filepro-list" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>

> fpxfer I think keeps the permissions but it only transfers filepro files.
> 
> Unless you trick it by moving the menus into a filepro folder and making
> a map and key file it does not transfer them. So if you trick it then it
> thinks you just transferred a filepro file and sets permissions accordingly.
> 
> Menus are specific in some ways to the OS so will have to deal with them
> on the far side anyway.

Apologies: I got side tracked by this minor hurricane thing.  :-)

My problem is not menus.

Data is fine.

It's that, called from a user's menu, fpxfer *creates a file which that user
doesn't have permission to read*, so that they can download it after it's created.

And I see no way to deal with that, that doesn't require SUID root scripts.

I don't think fpxfer respects umask, either, as I say, so I'm doubly screwed.

Cheers,
-- jra
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