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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: 8-bit death
Message-ID: <1991May9.174637.3153@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
References: <1075@stewart.UUCP> <3330.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <1991May8.124648.17903@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: Thu, 9 May 1991 17:46:37 GMT

In article <1991May8.124648.17903@en.ecn.purdue.edu> stevew@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Steven L Wootton) writes:
> WRT file protection, wouldn't user/group/world make more sense on a
> multiuser machine?  At last count, OS/2 is a single-user, multitasking OS.

A network is a multiuser environment.

Single user PCs and networks mix like Serbs and Croats (let's be topical
here). ACLs are nice, but the lack of ACLs in UNIX is hardly a reason to
justify the complete lack of protection in OS/2.

PS: comp.os.os2.advocacy. It's time.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
