Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 UW 5/3/83; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!info-mac From: info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) Newsgroups: fa.info-mac Subject: Re: MacTerminal Message-ID: <2139@uw-beaver> Date: Wed, 7-Nov-84 05:55:57 EST Article-I.D.: uw-beave.2139 Posted: Wed Nov 7 05:55:57 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Nov-84 06:05:40 EST Sender: yenbut@uw-beave Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 14 From: decvax!dartvax!crs@uw-beaver.arpa (Carl Spitzer) I refer you to Inside Mac, File Manager p. 10: >Your application can lock a file to prevent unauthorized writing to it. >Locking the file insures that none of the information can be changed *** >Currently, the Finder won't let you rename or delete a locked file, but >it will let you change the data the file contains ***. This means (I assume, since they refer to the Finder but not OS File Manager routines) that MacTerminal can change any locked file with abandon. So much for the power of the software lock! Cheers, Carl Spitzer