Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!fluke!ssc-vax!benoni From: benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: How good is Apollo UNIX? (was: O'pain Software Foundation: (2)) Message-ID: <2039@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: 24 Jun 88 16:01:29 GMT References: <2038@ssc-vax.UUCP> Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA Lines: 34 in article <2038@ssc-vax.UUCP>, benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel) says: > on a aegis sidelight... > The Aegis side of tar is a command called "rbak". Apollo sells their > system with these 5 1/4 floppies and you can use the rbak command to > write to the floppy however they have a wonderful disclaimer in their > docs cautioning you that error detection (during reads and writes) > with rbak and floppies is "poor". They tell you not to place any > critical or unrecoverable data on the floppy. i meant wbak (i was thinking about another feature of rbak ...i was also reading the rbak man page at the time of writing) when I was writing the description the brain mis-fired :-). do a mental substitution of wbak for every ocurrance of rbak in the above. thanks. another Apollo Unix sidelight : in chmod - Apollo calls it a feature of Domain memory management, you need read permission to execute a file...okay...however if you type chmod 111 foo you wind up getting : -r-xr-xr-x owner Basically giving execute to the owner and anyone else you give read permissions. If you give it chmod 222 foo you will not get -w--w--w- rather you get : -rw-rw-rw So they also give read rights to the owner also. ------ Naturally my opinions are my own.