--- Matthew Sackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Following on from chown is chmod: when one does a chmod a+r [filename] > for example, I take it that under Hurd that's going to update the > permissions for 'author' and not 'all'. Maybe use an 'A' for 'all'? >
The author shouldn't have any permission bits. chmod a+r should add read access to the owner, group, and other. Should chmod a+r alter the nouser permissions? I wouldn't think so. > Uppercase isn't generally liked for command options it appears. Any > other suggestions? > > Matthew > Perhaps chmod A+r could be used for all with no user bits. ===== James Morrison University of Waterloo Computer Science - Digital Hardware 2A co-op http://hurd.dyndns.org Anyone referring to this as 'Open Source' shall be eaten by a GNU __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
