Re: Read a file with only execute permission?

From: Barry Margolin (barmar@genuity.net)
Date: 12/28/01


From: Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 01:33:43 GMT

In article <jten2u0go41i3q1hper6uf1odkcaa8pt9k@4ax.com>,
 <greyfell@zerobyte.org> wrote:
> It's possible that I could just persuade him. I guess the big
>reason I haven't tried is that I was offended by his reaction. It
>irritated me, and clearly for him to take such a deliberate step he
>must feel pretty strongly about keeping me from removing his code from
>the loop for this process.I think it's more about a Unix versus NT
>pissing contest than anything else.

Well, maybe if you get the other 450 Windows users to join you you could
gang up on him and beat him into submission. :)

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