Autzoo.426 hacknews utzoo!henry Mon Apr 13 15:20:18 1981 executable .profile's Followed a suggestion of Ian's and revised newuser(1) so that .profile files are created marked executable, partly because once in a long while one does want to say ".profile" rather than ". .profile" and partly because they are, after all, executed, and it's nice to have the bits match the usage.