Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!spies!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: DICE and simple math programs Message-ID: <1990Jun8.182603.18439@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 8 Jun 90 18:26:03 GMT References: Organization: SF Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 15 In article eb15+@andrew.cmu.edu (Edward D. Berger) writes: > >There are a few other little problems, ... and that the bin files don't >have the pure bit set when I unzood it. > I can't comment on your other problems, but this one's not Matt's fault. Zoo always, to the best of my knowledge, sets the identical protection on all "-extracted" files. Makes sense when you think about it, since zoo is a multi-platform archiver, but there is no standard for the semantics of a particular protection bit from VMS to Unix to MS-DOS to AmigaDOS to ..., so some real disasters could happen if the protection bits were blindly copied. Kent, the man from xanth.