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From: greyham@ausonics.OZ (Greyham Stoney)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minor problems with Minix
Message-ID: <51@ausonics.OZ>
Date: 13 Oct 88 23:07:56 GMT
References: <680@unh.UUCP>
Organization: Ausonics Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia
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in article <680@unh.UUCP>, gph@unh.UUCP (Gerard P Hickey) says:
>      1.  For some reason when I do a chown on a file, the group is not changed
>          on the file. If the file is copied, the group changes. 

"some reason" being that it's not supposed to. chown changes ownership,
chgrp changes group. the destination file will be owner by you, and in your
group after a cp, but the source file won't change.
							Grey

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