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From: Vincent Fox
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 18:07

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In <4628@bimacs.BITNET> yedidya@bimacs.BITNET (Yedidya Israel) writes:
>I wonder why /dev/tty?? (esp. ptys) must have 666 permissions.
>Do not email, please post.

They don't have to. In fact some folks set them to 600. Sure does
cut down on user complaints about the FORTRAN compiler.

:-)

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Date: 7 Jan 1993 13:07:35 -0500
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