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From: nagel@blanche.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Gatekeeper Problems!!! (binhex/Stuffit/Packit)
Keywords: error bug dunno help
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Date: 14 Mar 89 16:48:02 GMT
References: <4774@hubcap.UUCP>
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In-reply-to: jkoerbe@hubcap.UUCP (jon c koerber)

In article <4774@hubcap.UUCP>, jkoerbe@hubcap (jon c koerber) writes:
|was any error before--it would just produce a file called "document"--no errs).
|The culprit turned out to be an init called "Gatekeeper".  This problem may

This happens because Stuffit, et. al. require file(other) permissions.
If you get the new version of Gatekeeper (1.1), you'll be able to 
monitor what applications need what privileges and eventually allow it
to auto-prevent illegal accesses.  In the old version, it was veto
or nothing, causing problems such as you describe.  The *real* problems
are in the applications, though!  GateKeeper certainly points out
where programmers were lazy in detecting file/resource errors.

Mark Nagel @ UC Irvine, Department of Information and Computer Science
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