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From: olson@harvard.UUCP (Eric Olson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: MacPascal won't go where it belongs
Message-ID: <731@harvard.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 17:51:14 EST
Article-I.D.: harvard.731
Posted: Thu Feb 20 17:51:14 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 23-Feb-86 06:21:29 EST
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Reply-To: olson@harvard.UUCP (Eric olson)
Organization: Aiken Comp Lab, Harvard
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In article <93@andromeda.UUCP> diamond@andromeda.UUCP (Robert Diamond) writes:

>I (accidentally) moved the MacPascal icon off the disk directory area and on
>to the desktop. Now there it sits, and whenever I try to move it back to where
>it belongs (or anywhere that's not actually on the grey desktop) I get a
>chastising "Cannot be moved or duplicated" message. I know it won't hurt 
>anything being there, but it IS annoying.

This is because the PROTECTED bit is set in the file's attribute bits.
It can be changed with SetFile or FEdit.  You may have to set it on
again if MacPascal checks it before allowing you to run the program.

Protected bit means that the file cannot be dragged, renamed (I think), 
deleted, or duplicated.  Apparently dragging from a window onto the 
desktop is permitted.

-Eric.