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From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>
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Subject: chmod... what am I missing?
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 03:40:15 -0800
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I must not be attending the Right conferences, or else the Right parties,
because I don't get the joke.

Could somebody please explain to me the meaning of the BUGS section of the
chmod(1) man page, as distributed with 9.1-RELEASE?