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From: gig%ritcv@cs.rit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Help with debug
Keywords: locked media, temporary fix
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Date: 21 Dec 89 19:18:57 GMT
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Reply-To: gig%ritcv@cs.rit.edu (Gordon Goodman)
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
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Apparently, debug was a command added to HC v.1.1 to help deal with locked
media such as CD-ROMs or locked floppy disks.  It has one argument whose 
value is either WriteOn or WriteOff.  Debug WriteOff prevents changes in a
card from being saved to disk  

Since Debug is no longer needed (HC v 1.2 and greater can deal with locked
and read-only media), it may dissappear in future versions of HyperTalk.
It was just a temporary fix.