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From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New 1.3 file protection bits
Message-ID: <13435@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 30 Oct 88 18:46:47 GMT
References: <8810281910.AA28109@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
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In article <8810281910.AA28109@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>:	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.


Uedit (the new version, 2.4) restores the file's protection bits when it
writes it out.



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