ess-5.1.19

[Douglas Bates]

Rich Heiberger <rmh at surfer.sbm.temple.edu> writes:

> Doug, I don't see the write protection on any subdirectories of doc.

Look at the permissions on ess-5.1.19/doc/user-faq and
ess-5.1.19/doc/user-manual.  There is no write permission for the
owner. 

$ tar zxf /home/ftp/pub/ess/ESS-5.1.19.tar.gz 
$ ls -laR ess-5.1.19/doc
ess-5.1.19/doc:
total 572
drwxr-xr-x    4 bates    bates        4096 Aug 10 08:57 .
drwxr-xr-x    8 bates    bates        4096 Aug 10 08:57 ..
...
dr-xr-xr-x    2 bates    bates        4096 Aug 10 08:57 user-faq
dr-xr-xr-x    2 bates    bates        4096 Aug 10 08:57 user-manual

ess-5.1.19/doc/user-faq:
total 12
dr-xr-xr-x    2 bates    bates        4096 Aug 10 08:57 .
drwxr-xr-x    4 bates    bates        4096 Aug 10 08:57 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 bates    bates         561 Feb 22  2001 ess-faq.xml

ess-5.1.19/doc/user-manual:
total 16
dr-xr-xr-x    2 bates    bates        4096 Aug 10 08:57 .
drwxr-xr-x    4 bates    bates        4096 Aug 10 08:57 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 bates    bates        7597 Feb 22  2001 ess-user.xml

> Many of the files themselves are r--r--r-- becasue on Windows, with limited
> file control (there is no concept of owner,group,all), we want to
> make it difficult for a user to accidentally overwrite a file.
> Thus in the lisp directory, the only .el file that can be written on is
> ess-site.el.
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