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From: taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Security v1.2 NDA
Message-ID: <648@generic.UUCP>
Date: 22 Apr 91 22:39:36 GMT
Sender: root@generic.UUCP
Organization: People-Net [pnet91], Etobicoke, ON
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    Anyone else download this NDA?  It's supposed to protect selected
partitions of your HD, or floppies from being read from/written to.  I tried
it out on a couple of floppy disks, and a relatively unimportant (and recently
backed-up!) partition on the HD.  It seems to work fairly well.  I'm worried
about the way it operates, however.  It seems to zero out the main directory
(but not the bitmap).  Writes to disk produce an error $51 (directory
structure damaged).  Testing it in Prosel-16 results in a "backward link" on
the root directory, plus the expected "There are 59456 blocks free marked
used.  Show them?"  Security sounds like a neat utility, but I don't want to
take the chance that it will munge my hard drive because of a glitch or
programming oversight.  So far it has worked as advertised (both protecting
and restoring volumes).  Any comments?

Brian T. Tao   *B-) |  t569taob@bluffs.scar.utoronto.ca  | "Though this be
U of Metro Toronto  |               - or -               |  madness, yet there
Scarberia, ON       |        taob@pnet91.cts.com         |  is method in 't."