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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Cshell 4.01a
Keywords: great.
Message-ID: <1620@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 22 Mar 90 13:09:17 GMT
References: <1606@corpane.UUCP> <1609@corpane.UUCP>
Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc., Louisville Ky
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>sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:


>When you use Dir (ls) on a write protected diskette, the system pops up 
>a 'disk is write protected, retry, cancel' requestor. The dir command
>is built into the shell program so I don't *think* it could be infected
>with some virus. Other commands don't cause the requestor to pop up.

Kent Polk wrote me to tell me that this does not occur on his copy of
Cshell 4.01a, now I DO have something to worry about. I also have some
more checking to do. I am at work and can't experiment right now, but
I will do so tonight and see what happens.

Basically, I have Cshell on an ARP 1.3 diskette with crossdos (readonly demo, 
that's why the disks were considered write-protected). also have virus X 3.2
running in the background. Whenever I did a 'dir b:' I got a requestor
that said the disk is write protected. Stupid me, I haven't tried it on 
a normal amigados write-protected disk yet. I will do so tonight. It
might just be some wierd conflict between crossdos and the shell.
But it only did it when using the shell dir command. It's part of
the shell program itself so I can't see it being infected with a virus
without the whole shell program being infected and it doesn't seem like it
is.
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