Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 14:13:51 +0100 From: Matthias Paul 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 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Precedence: bulk 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Snail mail: Matthias Paul, Ubierstrasse 28, D-50321 Bruehl, Germany New eMail : Web : URL: http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html --------------------------------------------------------------------