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- LOCK (1.X, 2.X, 3.X located in C:)
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- NAME
- LOCK - Enables or disables the write protection of a
- harddrive partition formatted under the Fast File System
- (FFS).
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- SYNOPSIS
- LOCK drive ON/OFF PASSWORD
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- DESCRIPTION
- 1.x only lets you enable or disable the write
- protection of a FFS. 2.x/3.x it also enables or disables
- the write protection of every kind of disk including
- floppies. The drive is unlocked only when another LOCK
- command is sent or reboot the computer.
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- KEYWORDS
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- DRIVE
- The name of the disk or partition. For 1.x, it can
- only be a hard drive formatted with the FFS. 2.x/3.x lets
- you LOCK floppy disks too. LOCK works a little
- differently on floppies than other commands. Normally,
- when a command is set onto a floppy drive (eg. df0:) it
- will only effect that particular disk. But, with LOCK, it
- effects any and every disk inserted into the drive.
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- ON/OFF
- This keyword lets you protect the disk (LOCK ON) or
- write enable (LOCK OFF). The default is for the disk to
- be write enabled.
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- PASSWORD
- Under 1.2, this password had to be four characters
- long. On Operating Systems 1.3 and above it can be of any
- length.The password is considered to be a text string.
- Therefor, if there are spaces in it, it must be enclosed
- in quotes. If a a password was included in the LOCK ON
- command, the same password keyword must be used in the
- LOCK OFF command for the disk to be write enabled.
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- EXAMPLES
- 1.To protect harddrive partition Dh1: with a password
- of saturn:
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- LOCK DH1: ON saturn
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- 2. To turn off the same:
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- LOCK DH1: OFF saturn
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- or
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- LOCK DH1: saturn
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