CNews problems

[David J. MacKenzie]

In article <1989Dec3.014328.9176 at utzoo.uucp> henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>The only way I know of that stuff could get created unreadable
>is if your umask was set to turn off the read bits, and chmod will *not*
>override that (i.e., "chmod +rx" probably wouldn't have helped).

However, "chmod a+rx" *will* override the umask.
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David J. MacKenzie <djm at eng.umd.edu>