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- From: rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Did microsoft really write an OS/2 "Terminator" crash prog?
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- Message-ID: <726360756rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org>
- Sender: root@jonas.gold.sub.org
- Date: Wed, 06 Jan 93 23:52:36 MET
- References: <1992Dec29.142331.777@mec.ohio.gov> <HkmkwB6w165w@tcscs.UUCP> <1993Jan3.214608.16982@weyrich.UUCP>
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- In article <1993Jan3.214608.16982@weyrich.UUCP> uunet.uu.net!weyrich!orville writes:
- >In article <HkmkwB6w165w@tcscs.UUCP> zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com writes:
- >>oecn_smith@mec.ohio.gov writes:
- >>
- >>> Hmmm, I must be simpleminded, but setting permission to read-only should keep
- >>> the casual user from doing to much harm.
- >>
- >>How about doing that, and then deleted the ATTRIB program. :)
- >
- >But can someone MOVE or RENAME a read-only file?
-
- Yes, one can. So this doesn't help agains intentional deletion, only
- against some accidents.
-
- Kai Uwe Rommel
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- DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt
- handler, and always will be. -Russell Williams
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