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From: brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Reading, But No Copying
Message-ID: <893:Apr1222:28:0090@stealth.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 12 Apr 90 22:28:00 GMT
References: <1990Apr6.210922.5579@gdwest.gd.com>
Reply-To: brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
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In article <1990Apr6.210922.5579@gdwest.gd.com> macbeth@gdwest.UUCP (David Macy-Beckwith) writes:
> Create a file which is readable (by vi, more, whatever) by 
> common-or-garden users BUT NOT COPYABLE.

Impossible. Once vi or more gets to it, it can be copied anywhere. If
you're trying to say ``which is printable but that's it,'' then write a
program that just sends the information to the printer.

This sounds like a problem of logistics, not UNIX.

---Dan