info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (07/29/85)
From: Andy Davenport <engvax!ymir!ANDY@cit-vax> In DECs defense: As a system manager, I find that the new scheme for determining the UIC that a new file will be given does just what I want it to do 99 percent of the time. With version 3.x I routinely got complaints from users that a file I had left in their directory for them was inaccessable. I had of course forgotten to SET FILE/OWN=PARENT. I or my co-workers would routinely leave a new version of SYLOGIN.COM inaccessable. Sure it was inattention on my part but the new scheme is better (in my humble opinion). Besides, attribute inheritance is what was universally requested through user input (SIR etc).