Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!mwilkins From: mwilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: MPW Files command Message-ID: <7449@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Date: 8 Jun 90 23:27:50 GMT References: <1990May24.143823.961@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1990May24.160353.13292@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <7257@gollum.twg.com> Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711 Lines: 19 In article <7257@gollum.twg.com> lefty@twg.com (David N. Schlesinger) writes: >The "p" is >the Protected bit, also known (does anyone know WHY?) as the "Bozo" bit, >which, I believe, is not used these days for anything at all... Once, I heard that the Bozo bit is used for a touch of rudimentary copy protection, and that if it is set it prevents the item from being copied in the finder, thus protecting it from Bozos. I do not know whether this was ever true, and I don't care enough to see if it is true now. -- Mark Wilkins -- "According to our contract, at precisely midnight of the night of her greatest triumph, the party of the first part, (that's you), agrees to render up her soul, now and forevermore, to the party of the second part. (That's me). Shall we go?"