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From: c9h@psuecl.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Overide of write protect on floppies
Message-ID: <62764@psuecl.bitnet>
Date: 31 Oct 89 11:34:03 GMT
References: <1454@minnow.sp.unisys.com> <1455@minnow.sp.unisys.com>
Organization: Engineering Computer Lab, Pennsylvania State University
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In article <1455@minnow.sp.unisys.com>, lee@minnow.sp.unisys.com (Gene Lee) writes:
> Does anyone have some software that I can run which would reconfigure
> the floppy drive in my pc AT compatible to ignore write protect tabs.
>
> The bottom line is that I want to copy programs to floppies for
> distribution and have a bunch of floppies laying around that don't
> have slots cut in them.
>
> Please mail you responses, thank you.

My God!  Do you know what the existence of such a program would mean?  There
would be *NO* way to protect your disks from viruses!  Impossible!  Any
"smart" virus would be able to simply bypass the write-protect facility of
your disk drive.  This is dangerous, and I am glad that it is *NOT* available!

BTW:  I do not know of any disk drive that will physically permit you to
write to a write-protected disk.  In fact, many of them have physical locking
mechanisms to prevent this.