Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!cbmvax!ditto
From: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: Is there a back door?
Summary: Boot floppy is mounted read/write.
Message-ID: <5749@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jan 89 01:23:02 GMT
References: <2384@cuuxb.ATT.COM> <102@gnosys.UUCP>
Reply-To: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <102@gnosys.UUCP> gst@gnosys.UUCP (Gary S. Trujillo) writes:
>The one thing I did in addition to what's indicated here is that I made
>myself a copy of the floppy filesystem disk from the foundation set, so
>that I have someplace to write a small temp file if I need to. (The Fdn.
>Set floppy doesn't even have a notch, so it's impossible to write to it,
>not that I'd want to anyway.)

Strange as it sounds, you CAN create temp files on the write-protected
floppy filesystem disk!  They go away when you type sync!  It's Really
bizarre, but the install scripts rely on that ability, so it must have
been intentional.
-- 
					-=] Ford [=-

"The number of Unix installations	(In Real Life:  Mike Ditto)
has grown to 10, with more expected."	ford@kenobi.cts.com
- The Unix Programmer's Manual,		...!sdcsvax!crash!elgar!ford
  2nd Edition, June, 1972.		ditto@cbmvax.commodore.com