* Correction *

From: Dan Trottier <dan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 17:36:07 -0300
To: Landon Boyd <csuite-dev-owner@chebucto.ns.ca>,

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On Oct 22,  3:52pm, Landon Boyd wrote:
} Subject: * Correction *
> 
> My chown/Solaris bug report was a false alarm:  The problem wasn't that
> the UID and GID didn't exist, it was just that the Solaris chown doesn't
> accept `chown UID.GID dog.txt`.  We'll just have to use seperate chown and
> chgrp statements. 

Actually the /usr/ucb/chown program under Solaris 2.X does have the older
SunOS 4.1.X behaviour. You might still wish to use seperate chown and chgrp
commands in all distributions with the "chown uid.gid" is not standard in
all implementations of Unix.
> 
> Sorry for any undue stress this may have caused. :)

dan

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Dan Trottier                                                  dan@mcmaster.ca
Dept of Computer Science & Systems           http://www.dcss.mcmaster.ca/~dan
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