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From: riley@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What do the protection codes mean?
Message-ID: <9488@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 1 Jan 90 01:19:40 GMT
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Reply-To: riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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>   Don't know about your Icon questions. Have you got .info & disk.info
> on the HD?

[The original message seems to have expired on our system, which is why
I'm replying to this instead of the original...]

In the current version of AmigaDOS, respect for the file protection bits
is fairly spotty.  Generally, OFS seems to ignore the protection bits
most of the time, while FFS obeys them some of the time.  In particular,
WorkBench will not display icons on an FFS disk if it does not have read 
(R) permission to the *.info files, but it ignores the read bit on OFS 
disks.  This is why the icons didn't appear on the hard disk but did appear 
on the floppy.

-Dan Riley (riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu, cornell!batcomputer!riley)
-Wilson Lab, Cornell University