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From: davids@ucscf.UCSC.EDU (Dave Schreiber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re:  What's Wrong with ARP!!!!
Message-ID: <10936@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Date: 11 Jan 91 18:21:30 GMT
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In article <1409@tardis.Tymnet.COM> jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes:
>In article <7434@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>>I've had people mucking around with my system screw me over with that before.

>Me too.  When I executed the harddisk-install program for FontWorks, it
>wiped out a perfectly good version of arp.library with an obsolete version,
>and overwrote C:copy WITHOUT MY PERMISSION.

Do you keep your boot partition LOCKed?  I lock both my boot partition
and my executables partition to prevent exactly this sort of thing.
While it's not foolproof (the 1.3 preferences program can write to a 
locked partition :-), it's better than nothing.

>Joe Smith (408)922-6220 | SMTP: jms@tardis.tymnet.com or jms@gemini.tymnet.com

[I've set the Followup-To: line to c.s.a.applications;  this seems to be
the appropriate group]
-- 
Dave Schreiber                                    davids@slugmail.ucsc.edu 
                                or (but not both) davids@ucscb.ucsc.edu
"It was fun learning about logic, but I don't see where or when I will ever
use it again."