Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ncar!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!ORION.CF.UCI.EDU!eaiu268 From: eaiu268@ORION.CF.UCI.EDU (David O'Rourke) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: Appleshare query about sharing executables Message-ID: Date: 21 Mar 88 23:00:30 GMT References: <1988Mar6.175513.8478@LU.Se> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 21 > This is true for version 1.1 of AppleShare. Version 2.0 (to be available > this Summer) adds a number of features. Among them is (quote from AppleLink): > > -- Copy-protection settings for applications: lets the network > administrator set applications programs run from the server so that > they cannot be copied by network users. One complaint. The way this message was posted it appeared that I made the quote on Applelink. I did not!!! Now on to explainations. Yes there is a flag that allows you not to copy files from Finder, but this flag is typically ignored by nearly all other copy programs. I would like to see Apple implement execute only with out having to re-implement the current operating system and making all the existing software incompatable when run over a network. The flag in question is called the Protect bit and can be set using most file editiors availible on the market. But like I said this doesn't prevent someone from copying a file useing something other than the Finder. David M. O'Rourke