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authorjthorn <jthorn@17b73243-c579-4c4c-a9d2-2d5706c11dac>2003-07-29 13:39:47 +0000
committerjthorn <jthorn@17b73243-c579-4c4c-a9d2-2d5706c11dac>2003-07-29 13:39:47 +0000
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amend description of CCTK_CreateDirectory() to more accurately
describe *why* the arguments are in the order they're in... git-svn-id: http://svn.cactuscode.org/flesh/trunk@3354 17b73243-c579-4c4c-a9d2-2d5706c11dac
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\begin{discussion}
To create a directory readable by everyone, but writeable only by the user runnning the code, the permission mode would be 0755.
-Note that (for historical reasons) the order of the arguments is
-the opposite of that of the usual Unix \verb|mkdir(2)| system call.
+Note that
+(partly for historical reasons and partly for Fortran~77 compatability)
+the order of the arguments is the opposite of that of the usual Unix
+\verb|mkdir(2)| system call.
\end{discussion}
\begin{examples}
\begin{tabular}{@{}p{3cm}cp{11cm}}