Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!decwrl! From: djm@twiddle.eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie) Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs Subject: Re: CNews problems Message-ID: <8912041651.AA01167@twiddle.eng.umd.edu> Date: 4 Dec 89 16:51:51 GMT References: <13657@reed.UUCP> <1989Dec3.014328.9176@utzoo.uucp> Organization: University of Maryland Lines: 8 In article <1989Dec3.014328.9176@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: >The only way I know of that stuff could get created unreadable >is if your umask was set to turn off the read bits, and chmod will *not* >override that (i.e., "chmod +rx" probably wouldn't have helped). However, "chmod a+rx" *will* override the umask. -- David J. MacKenzie