Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA29265 for pups-liszt; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:36:34 +1000 (EST) Received: from caveman.geac.com.au (caveman.geac.com.au [203.30.73.2]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA29260 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:36:26 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 24193 invoked from network); 26 Oct 1999 10:36:59 +1000 Received: from trowel.geac.com.au (203.1.26.189) by caveman.geac.com.au with SMTP; 26 Oct 1999 10:36:59 +1000 Received: (qmail 931 invoked from network); 26 Oct 1999 10:36:24 +1000 Received: from fgh.geac.com.au (202.6.67.163) by trowel.geac.com.au with SMTP; 26 Oct 1999 10:36:24 +1000 Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by fgh.geac.com.au?r with ESMTP id KAA08766 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:34:00 +1000 Delivered-To: X-Authentication-Warning: fgh.geac.com.au: dave owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:33:59 +1000 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall X-Sender: dave@fgh To: PDP Unix Preservation Society Subject: Re: When did the `dc' command first appear? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-No-Archive: Yes X-Witty-Saying: "Tesseract - Enter at own risk" X-Disclaimer: "Me, speak for us?" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-pups@minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Brian D Chase wrote: > > -r---wxrw- 0/0 6846 Apr 14 06:50 1973 bin/dc > > Hmmm... did the permissions on files have the same meaning back in 1973 as > they do now? Group and "other" writeable system binaries? Tsk tsk tsk. I don't believe the concept of group permissions existed then... > Well I suppose just because someone has written the Unix operating system, > it doesn't necessarily mean that they're a very good Unix sysadmin. On the other hand, people actually trusted each other, because you all worked with each other, and it was common for someone to write a utility and stick it on the system. Hint: /usr wasn't called that for no reason... -- Dave Horsfall VK2KFU dave@geac.com.au Ph: +61 2 9978-7493 Fx: +61 2 9978-7422 Geac Computers P/L (FGH Division) 2/57 Christie St, St Leonards 2065, Australia