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From: billh@tekig4.UUCP (William Hansen)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Bug in 1.1 Protect Command
Message-ID: <897@tekig4.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 25-Aug-86 16:07:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekig4.897
Posted: Mon Aug 25 16:07:38 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 27-Aug-86 09:47:49 EDT
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR
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Keywords: HELP!

A few days ago, I was trying to make a source file read-only so that I wouldn't
clobber it. While typing in the protect command I made an error, (I forgot to
give it any parameters) and wound up with a file with protection status ____
meaning you can't read, write, execute or delete it. Oh well I said I'll just
give it a new protect command and use the right parameters this time. Wrong!
all attempts to change the protection status resulted in a "Protect Failed"
or some such message. It appears that protect has protected the file from
itself! Not only can't I access the file, but the disk now has an unusable
spot since the file can't be deleted either. (This could be a real pain on a
hard disk.) Has anyone else encountered this in 1.1, and does it still exist
in 1.2?

						Bill Hansen
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