Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!remus.rutgers.edu!declan From: declan@remus.rutgers.edu (Declan McCullagh/LZ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: neat feature in "more" Message-ID: Date: 26 Feb 91 19:26:31 GMT References: <435@heaven.woodside.ca.us> <12712@helios.TAMU.EDU> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 12 In article <12712@helios.TAMU.EDU>, auvhess@auvc6.tamu.edu (David K. Hess) writes: > Give it a break. man pages are usually owned by root and nobody else has > write privileges unless you are foolish enough to login as root all the > time. In the default 2.0 distribution, man pages are writable by root only, but the preformatted cat pages are writeable by all. If I, as a normal user, wanted to modify the cat pages (by opening them with more's 'o' command, or with emacs or whatever), I could. -Declan Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com