Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!wuarchive!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: Unnecessary tar-compress-uuencodes Message-ID: Date: 13 Jul 90 21:22:05 GMT References: <15652@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <3114@psueea.UUCP> <1990Jul10.203015.27282@eci386.uucp> <5256@plains.UUCP> <3124@psueea.UUCP> <1990Jul13.022224.25441@lth.se> <24445@estelle.udel.EDU> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 10 In article <24445@estelle.udel.EDU> new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) writes: > Incidentally, why Unix octal protection bits? Why not > RWED (for read, write, execute, delete) (you mean Read Write Extend Delete) Why not? This is Usenet, and any other set of bits is going to be equally bogus. How about RWDHSAEX (Read Write Delete Hidden Script Archived Extend Execute) while you're about it? About the only bits worth keeping are write-protect and script/execute. Anything else is subject to local policy. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180.