Comment 9 for bug 434859

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Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote : Re: [Bug 434859] Re: [karmic] gnome-do doesn’t open OOo-Documents

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Chris S. <email address hidden> wrote:
> If I recall correctly, the executable bit gets set if you transfer
> that file to a FAT partition (like a flash drive).  I forget why this
> happens.

This would be because FAT doesn't support permissions at all, so "rwx"
permissions are invented by the kernel. These get copied when you
copy the files...