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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Read-Only Hard Disk
Keywords: Read-Only Partition
Message-ID: <1990Aug2.203010.7154@uwasa.fi>
Date: 2 Aug 90 20:30:10 GMT
References: <3809@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca> <1990Aug1.182905.26354@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu>
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In article <1990Aug1.182905.26354@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> devolder@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Eric DeVolder) writes:
>In article <3809@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca> marcus@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Mark FREEDMAN) writes:
>>We are looking for software that will mark a given hard disk 
>>partition as 'read-only'.  The only PD ones I've seen, 'wphd' 
)
)I am also looking for such a program.  Similarly, I am also looking for
)a program that will read-protect a disk/partition.

This reply is admittedly somewhat off target, but how about hiding
the main directory of the relevant partition.  This should be a kind
of a surrogate read protection.  There are PD utilities around for
hiding directories (just look at the various ftp site file lists). 
(Or it is relatively easy to write one).  The advantage of this
method is that it is rather harmless.  Watch out for command.com,
however, and make sure that it can be found by your system if you
hide things. 

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Prof. Timo Salmi        (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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