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From: uri@arnor.UUCP (Uri Blumenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: at files and permissions
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Date: 10 Jul 89 17:02:08 GMT
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From article <16774@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>, by jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II):
>>From article <8072@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>, by dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi):
>>> 
>>> When you discuss a security problem that is specific to System V,
>>> please be sure to say so clearly, else you may confuse naive users.
> 
> And indeed wizards are quite familiar with the behavior of major
> variations of UNIX.

Well, wizards shouldn't be "naive" - so they can't be confused so easily,
can they? And I bet that not every wizard really knows the behavior of
all the pieces of all the major variations of UNIX (at least 4 of them, 
so far).

Uri.