Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 11:57:41 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: nape@tooquiet.com Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Handbook Change Request Message-ID: <20030418022741.GD60521@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20030417221518.B972043FA3@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Single line message. On Thursday, 17 April 2003 at 15:15:18 -0700, nape@tooquiet.com wrote: > > At > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.html > and > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html, > cvsup666 is listed as an example. I request that it be change to a > different three number combination. Why? > Also, I would like to know why it was used instead of any of the > other numbers that could have been used. It could be a reference to typical file permissions (rw-rw-rw- is octal 0666). Or maybe it was a silly joke by a German contributor (666 == sex sex sex). Either way, I can't see any reason to change it. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+n2KdIubykFB6QiMRAiOrAJ9hj985VRSvLZk1n2vs5IlvyxNATgCeOEKK QRFjs8x8siTUpdfkLZ4aejg= =DqkU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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