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From:Neil Bothwick
Date:8 Apr 2001 at 01:05:51
Subject:Re: AA tutorials

Don Cox said,

> I am curious as to exactly what chmod is doing. It seems to be setting
> more bits than are used in AmigaDOS.

AmigaDOS does have the fields for user, group and permissions, it just
doesn't use them.

Neil


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