Arghh, Billy!

Somebody PLEASE explain to me why the W2K shell does not include a Windows equivalent of chmod by default, and why its closes equivalent, cacls, only comes with the $x00 resource kit. Here's what happened:

1. Need to install OpenOffice as regular user...
2. but the user had no permission to write in Program Files...
3. so runas /user:Administrator explorer didn't work...
4. so runas /user:Administrator cmd did work...
5. but no cacls...
6. so as Administrator, run cygwin.bat...
7. and do mkdir /cygdrive/c/Program Files/OpenOffice.org...
8. and do chmod 777 !$...
9. and install and then set the permissions back.

Thank God for Cygwin.