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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Directory subtypes on System Disk V5.0
Message-ID: <34649@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 12 Sep 89 00:24:48 GMT
References: <89252.175435DCS100@PSUVM.BITNET>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <89252.175435DCS100@PSUVM.BITNET> DCS100@PSUVM.BITNET (David C. Schweisguth) writes:
>[...]
>$8, whose icon is a folder with a black tab, is an "owned" folder which can
>only be written to by its owner.

Almost:  The back tab means you're the folder's owner, but that's all it means.
It doesn't tell you what access other people have to the folder, if any.  (For
example, in a whole folder full of Drop Folders, everybody else's shows up to
me with the down-pointing arrow, but my *own* drop folder, which I own, shows
up with a black tab, instead.  To verify that it's a drop folder, I can select
it and choose Icon Info, and then click on the Access card.)
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