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- From: ericd@synoptics.com (Eric Davis)
- Subject: Re: Help with directories!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.180859.22212@netnews.synoptics.com>
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- Organization: Synoptics Inc. Santa Clara, California.
- References: <87094@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:08:59 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- In article 87094@netnews.upenn.edu, chip@midnight.seas.upenn.edu (Charles H. Buchholtz) writes:
- >
- >I have explained to them all that when I say, "See if you can get the
- >answer from comp.foo.bar", I mean
- >
- > 1) Check for an FAQ in news.answers
- > 2) Search backwards for two months, 500 articles, or as much
- > as we still have online (whichever is shorter)
- > 3) If this looks like the right place (from step 2), post the
- > question
- >
- >If they find the answer in step 1 or 2, I get the answer sooner
- >(usually). Otherwise, it doesn't slow us down significantly. It's
- >certainly *lazier* to just post without searching first, but I don't
- >think it's significantly *faster*.
-
- Some sites do not keep that many articles online....
-
- >
- >By the way, as I recall from the discussion earlier this month in this
- >news group, there are three approaches to getting octal permissions:
- >C, perl, and awk. No one reported an easy solution, such as an option
- >to ls.
-
- I looked for one, but did not find one. If you know of one please offer it up!
-
- Thanks
- Eric
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