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From: AXDRW%ALASKA.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Don R. Withey)
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Date: 29 Oct 88 06:04:38 GMT
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Re: Re: New 1.3 file protection bits
> From:     dillon@cory.berkeley.edu
> :    Well, not the protection bits, just the naughty bits.
> :
> :    I was playing with IconX and noticed everytime I edited the script
> :file, Z clobbered the s bit (script). Z might be trashing the rest too
> :although I have not checked yet. (Hope to hell not the archive bit!)
> :
> :    Anyway, Manx Z may not be the only program to do this.
>
>     *ALL* programs will do this.  Currently, very few programs modify
> the protection bits at all after they write out a file.
>
>                     -Matt
Just though that I would note that the 1.3 Emacs does not kill the script
bit when you edit a file.
        Don