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From: cbrown@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Charles T Brown)
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Subject: Re: Writing/Saving Buffers in Certain Mode
Keywords: gnu-emacs, file mode
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Date: 1 Feb 91 18:19:49 GMT
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In article <7450@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> msc_wdqn@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Daniel Q Naiman) writes:
>
>I am using GNU-EMACS and want to customize it 
>so that when I save/write to a file, the resulting
>file is readable only by me. From reading the manual
>it is my impression that the solution to this 
>problem has something to do with the hook
>variable "write-file-hooks" but beyond that 
>I do not know how to proceed. 
>
>Can anyone help?
>
>Please send replies to dan@jesse.mts.jhu.edu
>
>Thanks. 
>
>Dan Naiman (dan@jesse.mts.jhu.edu) 
>Department of Mathematical Sciences
>Johns Hopkins University

Try 'man umask' and see what that gets you... (I'm on a SYSV system
acting like a  BSD4.3 system sometimes, so I'm never sure what
is just SYSV or just BSD... :-)

--Titus

-- 
"Never put off until tomorrow, that which can be done the day after tomorrow"
          -- C. Titus Brown, anonymous student, brown@max.physics.sunysb.edu

                UNIX is good, you say?  Which UNIX, say I!