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From: cuccia@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Cuccia)
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Subject: Re: section 3 manpages, and, mode 444 distributions
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Date: Sat, 23-May-87 02:04:21 EDT
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In article <27955@rochester.ARPA> ken@rochester.UUCP (Ken Yap) writes:
>|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

All man pages and documents that are part of 4.3BSD were placed under
SCCS, something that wasn't done for much of the documentation in previous
4BSD releases.  I was the one who did the work for some of them (/usr/doc/ps2).

--Nick