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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Suggestion for assignment of another protection bit
Message-ID: <8712240640.AA24010@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 24 Dec 87 06:40:16 GMT
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	How about another archive bit:

		"Do not bother to archive this file because it can easily
		 be regenerated"

	So disk backup programs can easily tell which files do *not* need
to be backed up.  Application programs or the user can then set/clear the
bit as he wishes.

	As far as execution goes, why not adopt the UNIX standard:

#!C:EXECUTE		(as the first line in file)

	So one can make 'standard' script files which use other
interpreters rather than EXECUTE (such as SHELL).


				-Matt