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On 2011-02-15 16:52Z, hardya wrote:
[...]
> Andrew Hardy AT ANDREWHARDY ~/mywsn/LSU-SensorSimulator/samples
> $ chmod -v 777 Simulation
> mode of `Simulation' changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx)
> 
> Andrew Hardy AT ANDREWHARDY ~/mywsn/LSU-SensorSimulator/samples
> $ ls -l Simulation
> -rw-r--r-- 1 Andrew Hardy Administrators 238835 Oct 28  2005 Simulation

Could that be due to a space in your username?
  http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.name-with-space

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