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bug in recent posting of true

#990
From: metzger
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1987 00:07
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The shar file for the recent PD version of true had a bug in it. It
failed to properly chmod the executable to 755, thus making it
unexecutable.

Insert this patch into the shar file and things should be alright

*** true.old	Wed Apr  1 20:03:57 1987
--- true	Wed Apr  1 20:05:21 1987
***************
*** 1,2 ****
--- 1,3 ----
  # !/bin/sh
  cat /dev/null > true
+ chmod 755 true
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From: metzger@garfield.columbia.edu.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs
Subject: bug in recent posting of true
Message-ID: <4515@columbia.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-Apr-87 19:07:13 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  1 19:07:13 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Apr-87 08:34:05 EST
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Organization: Columbia University CS Department
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