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+<?php  if (!defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');
+
+/*
+|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+| File and Directory Modes
+|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+|
+| These prefs are used when checking and setting modes when working
+| with the file system.  The defaults are fine on servers with proper
+| security, but you may wish (or even need) to change the values in
+| certain environments (Apache running a separate process for each
+| user, PHP under CGI with Apache suEXEC, etc.).  Octal values should
+| always be used to set the mode correctly.
+|
+*/
+define('FILE_READ_MODE', 0644);
+define('FILE_WRITE_MODE', 0666);
+define('DIR_READ_MODE', 0755);
+define('DIR_WRITE_MODE', 0777);
+
+?>
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