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- From: messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk)
- Subject: Re: Octal chmod status
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- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 14:12:03 GMT
- Organization: Messina Software
- References: <Bt0EEL.H1q@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> <1992Aug18.181609.8988@news.eng.convex.com> <Bt7t36.1w3@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> <1992Aug19.130558.8488@news.eng.convex.com>
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- Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM> responds to Marc Unangst:
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- >Big deal. That infinitesimal time difference is surely not
- >worth all the hassle of writing a C program for each and every little
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- Even though I agree that the perl solution was fine (by being so
- small), but I do not understand the bruhaha about the "hassle" of
- writing a C program for small tasks. It is often much simpler and
- *faster* to write the C code than to implement other solutions. At
- least it is much more *readable* than the aformentioned perl script...
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- t.
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