From: utzoo!henry
Newsgroups: gripes
Title: test -x file 
Article-I.D.: utzoo.2191
Posted: Fri Jun 18 14:49:48 1982
Received: Fri Jun 18 14:49:48 1982

The version of "test" in Unix 3.0, which is the new version of Unix that
we will be moving towards, implements -x among other things (quite a few
other things...).  -x would be useful enough that I may put it in without
waiting, though.