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From: nf0i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Norman William Franke, III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Mac lab security SUMMARY
Message-ID: <0b0I4cC00WBKE2mSpY@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 27 Sep 90 00:00:40 GMT
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Organization: Class of '92, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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In-Reply-To: <gb0DdPy00WBMI30V1v@andrew.cmu.edu>

On 26-Sep-90 in Re: Mac lab security SUMMARY 
user "Judith H. White"@andrew writes:
>You can set the protection to keep applications from being copied from
>the server as server administrator. You have to do it on the server
>itself, you can't set copy protection from a workstation.
> 
>Just do a get info on the file, and click on the copy protected check
>box. It really does work. And the application can still be run.
> 
>Judy White
>jw3z@andrew.cmu.edu

No it doesn't work. Anyone with a program which doesn't recgonize the
don't copy bit will copy it. Some examples: DiskTop, DiskTools. Works
like a charm. It's just the Finder that will not let you copy the file.
Granted, for the average user this is enough. 

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