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Subject: Re: section 3 manpages, and, mode 444 distributions
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Date: Fri, 15-May-87 17:46:59 EDT
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In article <766@mcgill-vision.UUCP> mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) writes:
>The other question is:  WHY is all the source under /usr/src
>distributed mode 444??

Because it's all maintained under RCS, and when you 'ci' (check in) a
file, it makes it unwritable until you 'co' (check out) it.

=Spencer   ({ihnp4,decvax}!utah-cs!thomas, thomas@cs.utah.edu)