FAT32 doesnt contain permissions like linux and i doubt that .zip files would maintain linux permissions... best bet would be to write a small script that creates a tmp directory, unzips the files in it, chmods the files to 600 and then rezips them using a saner compression method like gzipped tars -munir On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Bob Tanner wrote: > Anyone know of a way to fix zipfiles where the idiot must have zipped up the > file on a windows box and all the permissions are 000 on all the files? > >