mode setting of created file

[Maarten Litmaath]

dbaird at rian.uucp (David Baird) writes:
\... how to change what default mode settings are given to a file when
\created.  currently all users create a file with the mode: -rw-r--r--
\we want to change this to: -rw-rw-r--

This is a joke, right?
I mean, everybody knows what UNIX stands for, right?

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