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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 02 Apr 1997 08:45:15 +0200
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Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:

> >   Best bet would be to: chown -R `whoami` lisp
> >   ??  But that doesn't deal with group crap.

This looks fine.  The group isn't terribly imoprtant, IMHO.

> And it doesn't work on systems that don't implement the -R flag in
> chown.

Can you name some?  They seem to be rare...

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