Date:	Fri, 02 May 1997 14:13:51 +0100
From:	Matthias Paul <PAUL-MA AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Subject:	Re: A few FS notions
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Reply-to:	Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
Message-id:	<2118EBB7B84@reze-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de>
Organization:	Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen

On Fri, 02 May 1997, Mark Aitchison wrote:

> 3. Some files have bare-bones FAT permissions, others have owner-group-
>    world flags; do we have to map them all down to a "readonly" bit 
>    appropriate for that user?  Or make up owner-group-world bits 
>    (e.g. from a default umask to use Unix terminolgy).

Re-introduction of owner-group-world bits should be easy, since 
they already have been part of the kernel.  Also, by providing 
undocumented option /U:user, many of the external utilities also 
do honore these bits on a multiuser system.  It should be very easy 
to change these utilities to also provide this functionality on a 
single-user system, since this mainly depends on the 'single or 
multiuser version' as recorded on startup of an utility.

(More on this can be found in NWDOSTIP.TXT from MPDOSTIP.ZIP)...

Bye,

 Matthias
 

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