From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: newsham@lava.net (Tim Newsham) Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 11:39:17 -1000 (HST) Subject: [TUHS] Early UNIX file permission oddity In-Reply-To: <20080521110851.GG14184@mercury.ccil.org> References: <20080521043224.GA32712@minnie.tuhs.org> <20080521110851.GG14184@mercury.ccil.org> Message-ID: > It's important to remember that 1st, 2nd, 3rd, ... represent editions of > the *manual*, and that there is no guarantee that any particular > snapshot of the system corresponds exactly to what was in any particular > manual edition. Research Unix (as it was later called retrospectively) > was right up to the end a continuously evolving system, and the whole > concept of releases simply did not exist for it. I thought there were distinct releases for 5th and 6th (and 7th?) edition where the manuals, sources and binaries were all collected in a consistent snapshot and released as a unit. > John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org Tim Newsham http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/