On 04/11/2018 05:44 AM, kalle wrote:
I don't even know if this methodology of
encoding information (I mean "symbolical notation rwx for owner =
symbolical notation rwx = symbolical notation 111= interpreting 111
numerically in binary = transforming to numerical octal 7") is just used
in this
Am 04.04.2018 um 00:10 schrieb Paul Eggert:
> On 04/03/2018 12:29 PM, kalle wrote:
>>
>> But what do you think of my teaching concept, to try to explain why a
>> `7' in `755' means =4+2+1=111=rwx="rwx for owner", which is assumed as
>> self-evident or intuitive in both the original text and your
On 04/03/2018 12:29 PM, kalle wrote:
But what do you think of my teaching concept, to try to explain why a
`7' in `755' means =4+2+1=111=rwx="rwx for owner", which is assumed as
self-evident or intuitive in both the original text and your patch?
I think it's out of place in the coreutils
hello,
Am 03.04.2018 um 17:45 schrieb Paul Eggert:
> Thanks for mentioning the problem.
so you see a problem there too?
However, I found the proposed rewrite
> to be more confusing than the original.
It may me that my way of building sentences is quite amendable. I'm not
a native english
Thanks for mentioning the problem. However, I found the proposed rewrite
to be more confusing than the original. I think part of the problem is
that this is not really the place to explain octal notation; any reader
who doesn't know octal before reading the manual is not likely to
understand