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From: swansonc@acc.stolaf.edu (Chris Swanson, St. Olaf College)
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Subject: Re: Writing/Saving Buffers in Certain Mode
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Date: 7 Feb 91 00:18:24 GMT
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In-Reply-To: cbrown@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu's message of 1 Feb 91 18:19:49 GMT


umask is on BSD as well.  To set up your default permissions as you
want, set your umask to 077, which will make the default permissions
for files that you write 600 or 700

That is set by the command:
umask 022

	-Chris

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