Unnecessary tar-compress-uuencodes

[Peter da Silva]

In article <24445 at estelle.udel.EDU> new at ee.udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
> Incidentally, why Unix octal protection bits?  Why not
>   RWED (for read, write, execute, delete) 

(you mean Read Write Extend Delete)

Why not? This is Usenet, and any other set of bits is going to be equally
bogus. How about RWDHSAEX (Read Write Delete Hidden Script Archived Extend
Execute) while you're about it? About the only bits worth keeping are
write-protect and script/execute. Anything else is subject to local policy.
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