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From: ken@rochester.ARPA (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: section 3 manpages, and, mode 444 distributions
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Date: Thu, 21-May-87 05:49:15 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 21 05:49:15 1987
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|Mode 444 seems like a reasonable precaution to keep junior roots from wiping all
|their man pages.  I used to be annoyed by this to until I discover the ``noro''
|option to vi(1).  Now I keep stuff that isn't changed often (like the man pages)
|as mode 444 and set ``noro'' when editing one of them.

This doesn't help if root says "rm -f foo.1". It's probably co'ed from
a RCS'ed file, that's all.

	Ken