RE: Octal notation


Subject: RE: Octal notation
From: W.D.McKinney (deem@wdm.com)
Date: Sun Nov 11 2001 - 22:53:06 AKST


Kinda like:

11010001.11000001.00110000.00101000
128+64+16+1.128+64+1.32+16.32+8
209.193.48.40
www.wdm.com

/Dee

sorry...just couldn't help it :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org]On Behalf Of
Greg Madden
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 9:39 PM
To: aklug@aklug.org
Subject: Octal notation

Here is a nice reference originally gleaned from a Debian list, unknown
author.

Computing: "chmod 754" = "rwxr-xr--" (Please excuse the crudeness.)

 User | Group | Other
------|-------|-------
r w x | r - x | r - -
4 2 1 | 4 2 1 | 4 2 1 <-- 3-bit Octal notation (binary representation)
------|-------|-------
\ | / | \ | / | \ | / <-- Add the octal bits
4+2+1 | 4+1 | 4
  7 | 5 | 4 <-- 0-7 Octal notation

-- 
Greg Madden
Precision Air Balance, Inc.
email:pabi@gci.net
Phone:(907)276-0461 Fax:(907)258-0461



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