Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!qmw-cs!morten From: morten@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Morten Ronseth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: MPW Files command Message-ID: <2383@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk> Date: 13 Jun 90 15:48:52 GMT References: <1990May24.143823.961@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1990May24.160353.13292@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <7257@gollum.twg.com> Reply-To: morten@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Morten Ronseth) Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK. Lines: 24 In article <7257@gollum.twg.com> lefty@twg.com (David N. Schlesinger) writes: >In article <1990May24.160353.13292@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> >dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes: >> -------------------- ---- ---- ------ ---------- ---------------... >> foo TEXT MPS 2K lvbspoimad 5/24/90 10:58 ... >> ^^ >> || >> What are these? > >The "o" is the Open bit, lit if the file is currently open. The "p" is >the Protected bit, also known (does anyone know WHY?) as the "Bozo" bit, Because the protection scheme is so ridicilously bad, only a bozo could've come up with it (this is actually true...). Morten. -- ==================================================================== Morten Lerskau Ronseth UUCP: morten@qmw-cs.uucp Dept. of Computer Science JANET: morten@uk.ac.qmw.cs Queen Mary and Westfield College ARPA: morten%qmw.cs@ucl-cs.arpa Mile End Road Easylink: 19019285 London E1 4NS Tlf: 071 987 5220 England. Dept. fax: 081 980 6533