ispell and read protected files

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From: David M. Neves
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1987 19:30

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If you run ispell on a read protected file it produces a file that is
readable by anyone.  It should preserve the same permissions.

The bak file produced is not changed if ispell is run on the file
again.  I don't know if this is a bug or a feature.

-David
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David Neves, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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From: neves@ai.WISC.EDU (David M. Neves)
Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs
Subject: ispell and read protected files
Message-ID: <502@ai.WISC.EDU>
Date: Tue, 17-Mar-87 14:30:55 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 17 14:30:55 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Mar-87 01:01:19 EST
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Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
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Keywords: ispell
Summary: ispell unprotects protected files

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