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From: levesque@csli.Stanford.EDU (Hector Levesque)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: HC and Locked disks
Message-ID: <15340@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 14 Sep 90 21:42:12 GMT
Sender: levesque@csli.Stanford.EDU (Hector Levesque)
Reply-To: levesque@csli.stanford.edu (Hector Levesque)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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For reasons that I don't think were ever made clear in the Apple HC book, HC
needs to be run from an unlocked disk.  What I would like to be able to do is
lock my hard disk and let young'uns explore and run HC, saving their files on a
floppy.  But just moving HC and Home to an unlocked floppy doesn't work.  I'm
not sure why, but I guess HC must be trying to write something to the System
Folder on the locked disk, though I can't see what.  The alternative that does
work is clumsy: also put a copy of System Folder on the floppy, and reboot.
Anyone have a better workaround?  How about HC 2.0?

Thanks

Hector Levesque
Dept. of Computer Science
U. of Toronto
hector@ai.toronto.edu