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From: webber@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Andrew Webber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: hard drive write-protection?
Message-ID: <1991Feb16.005032.17917@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 16 Feb 91 00:50:32 GMT
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>> Let me describe the situation:
>> I supervise a Mac Lab here at Clemson and we have a problem of students
>> putting unauthorized software on the hard drives, and they sometimes make
>> it difficult to find the software (hiding within folders). It hasn't been 
>> much of problem having the lab operators go thru each folder to find the
>> software, but now it is.
> 
How about removing the folders... :-)

I run a lab too.  We've been using MacTools for undeleting and copy-
protecting files.  I've been wondering (haven't tried it yet) if it
would be possible to have only the application visible in the main
directory and thus the supplemental ones hidden in the system folder
(invisible) or just make them invisible in the main directory.  This
would probably not be appropriate for some applications. (??)  But
there wouldn't be those crevices to hide files in anymore.

Has anyone out there had success with this sort of thing?


-- 
  Andrew Webber
  Internet:  a-webber@uiuc.edu
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign