Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!rutgers!mcnc!ecsgate!ecsvax!mvolo From: mvolo@uncecs.edu (Michael R. Volow) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: File protection in MS-DOS Summary: can't write-protect directories in MS/PC-DOS Message-ID: <1990Nov20.010233.4352@uncecs.edu> Date: 20 Nov 90 01:02:33 GMT References: <3920@male.EBay.Sun.COM> <7818.2747aceb@uwovax.uwo.ca> Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Lines: 8 One can hide, but not write-protect, directories in MS/PC-DOS... unless, one obtains a separate security program; or unless one uses instead DR DOS 5.0, an MS-DOS clone. -- Michael Volow, Psychiatry, Durham VA Med Center, Durham NC 27712 919 286 0411 Ext 6933 mvolo@ecsvax.edu