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From: kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: INIT 29: a brief description
Message-ID: <306@lloyd.camex.uucp>
Date: 21 Jan 89 18:40:34 GMT
References: <34734@bbn.COM> <876@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> <34817@bbn.COM>
Reply-To: kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg)
Organization: Camex, Inc., Boston, Mass USA
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In article <34817@bbn.COM> levin@BBN.COM (Joel B Levin) writes:

>An open write protect tab will prevent infection of a floppy disk.

Is that strictly true?  Is the write-protect a hardware interlock, or
could it be circumvented by circumventing the file manager and
twiddling the disk directly?

Kent Borg
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