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From: KENR@ASGARD.BBN.COM (KEN ROSSEN)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vms
Subject: What system file does EMACS read to determine protections?
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Date: 27 Sep 88 20:15:00 GMT
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Some time ago, when I was chasing down a distribution of emacs, some
kind fellow assisting me (and I'm pretty sure he found me through this
list) knew the answer when I mentioned in passing that all my file
buffers in EMACS under VMS start up in read-only mode, and that I
didn't know why.  The answer was some file in one of the SYS$...
directories that emacs tries to read to determine what protections it
should use.  When we changed the protections of that file so everyone
could read it, the problem went away.

What file was it?
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