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From: phil@amd70.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: expert-friendly: are long names a waste of time?
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Date: Thu, 3-Nov-83 23:26:15 EST
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Re Laura's question about "chmod 755 file" or "chmod file 755", it's
more logical if you remember you could have "chmod 755 file1 file2".
If you had "chmod file1 file2 755" the program would have to read until
the end to find out what mode to use. When it gets the mode first, it
can just grab new file names and change them. Please don't make suggestions
that prevent me from having files with numbers as names.

Now, who can explain:

clri filesystem i-number vs
ncheck -i numbers filesystem
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Phil Ngai (408) 988-7777 {ucbvax|decwrl|ihnp4|allegra}!amd70!phil