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From: ira@slovax.UUCP (Ira G. Chayut)
Newsgroups: net.sources
Subject: Mix - allowing catmix to work for a read-only file
Message-ID: <391@slovax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-Apr-87 11:38:00 EST
Article-I.D.: slovax.391
Posted: Fri Apr 24 11:38:00 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 26-Apr-87 01:11:07 EST
Organization: R & D Associates., Tacoma, WA
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As posted, mix requires the user to have write permission for a mix'd file 
even if the file is just being catmix'd.  The following diff's (at the
top of "readfile" seems to work for me.

487c487
<     int checkval, type_open;
---
>     int checkval;
492,493c492
<     type_open = (context == CATMIX) ? 0 : 2;
<     if ((fd = open(fstring, type_open)) == -1) {
---
>     if ((fd = open(fstring, 2)) == -1) {

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