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- From: john@physiol.su.OZ.AU (John Mackin)
- Subject: Re: Help with directories!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.023909.20003@physiol.su.OZ.AU>
- Organization: Department of Physiology, University of Sydney, Australia
- References: <1992Aug24.175614.15627@netnews.synoptics.com> <1992Aug24.195943.2766@prl.dec.com> <ASH.92Aug25094554@ulysses.mr.ams.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 02:39:09 GMT
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- In article <ASH.92Aug25094554@ulysses.mr.ams.com>,
- ash@ulysses.mr.ams.com (Alan Harder) writes:
-
- > This seems like a legitimate question for comp.unix.shell. If the
- > question bothers you, don't answer it. Otherwise, let's not
- > discourage people from asking questions on this group. After all,
- > it's comp.unix.shell, not comp.unix.shell.wizards.
-
- Oh dear.
-
- You all seem to be missing Boyd's point. Or have you, too, only
- been reading this group for three minutes?
-
- His point (if I may be permitted) was that we _just had_ a thread
- about `how do I convert symbolic permissions to octal'. Like last
- week.
-
- The consensus in that thread, by the way, was that you don't need
- to do this.
-
- Of course it's a legitimate question. And all of us who have been
- reading netnews for longer than three minutes know that threads
- continually recycle. But it's also legitimate to be peeved when
- a thread recycles _that quickly_.
-
- --
- John Mackin <john@civil.su.oz.au>
- `I'm not easily impressed on Mondays.' -Bruce Ellis
-