installing screen 3.2a

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From: Marty Leisner
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 17:40

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I tried to install screen 3.2a.

Its setuid to root and I did see any documentation (I looked) about why.

I ran it without installing it and it seemed to work somewhat.

In the makefile, I see: 
install: all
        $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) screen $(bindir)/screen
        -chown root $(bindir)/screen && chmod 4755 $(bindir)/screen

What gives?

Marty    leisner.henr801c@xerox.com 
          Member of the League for Programming Freedom 
 The Feynman Problem Solving Algorithm:
 1) Write down the problem
 2) Think very hard
 3) Write down the answer     -- Murray Gell-mann

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