Re: Ownership of files modified by emacs

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From: Brad Miller
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 16:09

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>>>>> On 2 Sep 92 15:12:16 GMT, kelley@kelley.nist.gov (Mike Kelley) said:
> Followup-To: gnu.epoch.misc

> My question is - How do I teach Epoch (or emacs) to preserve the
> ownership of files when they are edited and resaved? Currently, if I
> modify a file owned by userxxx and resave it, it is then owned by
> me.  I think (unless someone can point out why not) I would prefer
> that the original ownership be preserved.

On a somewhat related note, I am using epoch 4.2 on an SGI runing IRIX 4.0.1.
When I save a file, such as a shell script, it is no longer executable.

Is there something I can configure to fix this, or is this a bug??

Brad




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