Jason Costomiris on Fri, 12 Jul 2002 00:16:05 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Program permission


On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 03:40:08PM -0400, Greg Lopp wrote:
: Confessed ignorance : What are the limitations of the 
: "chmod [OPTION]... MODE[,MODE]... FILE..." notation?

All of the wasted time in formulating the exact ordering of a bunch
of letters.  Let's see, was that o for owner, others, oscar?  Oh heck,
it's just so much easier to string a few digits together.

Can't you just think in octal like the rest of us? :-)  It's SO
much easier and SO much more straight-forward.

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