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.