execute permissions

This is differant. I couldn't drag and drop a file to the floppy so I ls -l 
that file (1) Well the permissions were (help me out here) 311  So I was 
thinking that since I'm the owner and have write permessions and I should be 
able to drag -n-drop to the floppy drive. But it wasn't until I had changed 
the permissions to 700 (adding the execute bit) (2) that I was able to 
drag-n-drop. Why is that? It would seem that that I would nead write 
permissions rather than execute. Is it perhaps because this is a device and 
to make it run you need execute permissions and you would need write to allow 
data to transfer from the computer to the device? If that is the case could 
this possibly be why some printers don't work? 
-- 
<:-)Mike(-:>
1-
-rw-r--r--    1 bmike1   bmike1        103 2004-05-20 16:36 Floppy
2-
-rwx------    1 bmike1   bmike1        103 2004-05-20 16:36 Floppy

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