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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Cron - First Saturday of the month
Message-ID: <7287@star.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 10 Aug 90 18:13:28 GMT
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In article <7286@star.cs.vu.nl>, I wrote:
)The manual (man 5 crontab on SunOS 4.0.3c):
)...
)The code:
)...

I forgot to mention the code is _not_ SunOS 4.0.3c (still no up to date
sources...)
Anyway, my point still stands: _anding_ the fields is preferred (as Randal
already explained), but it might be too late to fix the specifications...
--
   "UNIX was never designed to keep people from doing stupid things, because
    that policy would also keep them from doing clever things."  (Doug Gwyn)