Yes, this is useful. It's probably beyond what she needs to be concerned about, but certainly useful. Luke Davis writes: > On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Janina Sajka wrote: > > >600 certainly does help. Can you build a tar and chmod at the same time? > > Hmm, an interesting question. There are two ways to test this idea, which > I will now attempt... > > Starting the tar process in one window (using screen), and in another > listing the file in /tmp, shows, 644. Doing a chmod to 600, while the tar > is still in progress, then listing the file again, shows 600. So that > solution appears to work, as would, of course, backgrounding the tar > process, and changing the mode. > > The other method: > > touch /tmp/ldtf.tbz > chmod 600 /tmp/ldtf.tbz > tar --bzip2 -cf /tmp/ldtf.tbz ~/ > > also acomplishes the task of keeping the file private, so I suppose the > answer is yes, in all possible ways. > > >I realize we're splitting hairs here. > > So what? The more hairs you split, the more lessons you learn about hair. > Put another way: in order to determine the means by which something > operates, is frequently to split it open, and see! > > Luke > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040
