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Date:	Sun, 10 Jun 2001 22:11:00 +0100
From:	Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: .files on servers are perceived as readonly
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
[snip]
> When I ported Fileutils, I decided I couldn't in good faith release an
> `ls' that was incapable of showing the DOS attribute bits.  I could
> grind my teeth if hidden/system attributes were unavailable, but the
> archive (a.k.a. modified) bit was the last straw: it is too important
> to let it go.

Good plan.

[snip]
> `-g' was perfect: it's a compatibility option (so will not be changed)
> and it does nothing in the Unix version.  The rest, as they say, is
> history.
> 
> The port of v3.16 described this switch in the DJGPP-specific README
> file.

I appear to have omitted this from the new distribution's readme.dos. I
will update readme.dos with the information. Martin & Eli - thanks for
catching this.

Thanks, bye, Rich =]

-- 
Richard Dawe
http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/

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