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shar: file permissions: uuencode and chmod: wasteful?


From: Dan Jacobson
Subject: shar: file permissions: uuencode and chmod: wasteful?
Date: 17 Jun 2001 04:28:20 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7

I noticed that in GNU shar, a binary file is first made with uuencode
"being 600 file", then later restored to its original permissions with
chmod.  perhaps the original permissions could be done in one step by
uuencode, saving a whole millisecond.
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