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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 07/23/05 17:05
Geoff Berrow wrote:
> I noticed that Message-ID: <T9WdnUo9P8uUK3zfRVn-pg@comcast.com> from
> Jerry Stuckle contained the following:
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>>As for why chmod() isn't called change() - if you just used change(), what would
>>you be changing?
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> change_permissions() would make sense
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Too long, for one thing. Look at the original Unix commands - all very short.
Remember, Unix was first created in the days of the 110 baud teletypes. A 300
baud modem was a luxury. 1200 baud modems cost thousands.
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