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From: rainwatr@ucqais.uc.edu (Donald J. Rainwater)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: WANTED: Software copy lock for Mac
Summary: unset is easy, too.
Message-ID: <1678@ucqais.uc.edu>
Date: 21 May 89 20:10:49 GMT
References: <616@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> <141200032@cdp>
Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati Computer Center
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In article <141200032@cdp>, sklein@cdp.UUCP writes:
> 
> The Finder has a bit called NOCOPY.  Guess what it does?
> 
> You can easily set the NoCopy bit of any file using utilities like
> DistTop or DiskTools.

	The only problem with this is that users have tools like these
as well.  I don't know how it works with file servers, but on a local
drive changing this back to full access is just a few clicks away.

	The Mac isn't much for keeping people out...
-- 
Don Rainwater, University of Cincinnati Computer Center
rainwatr@ucbeh.san.uc.edu
rainwatr@ucbeh.bitnet
rainwatr@ucqais.uc.edu