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  2. From: jpugh@apple.com (Jon Pugh)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
  4. Subject: Re: LOCK Stack, HOW ???
  5. Message-ID: <jpugh-180892215401@90.20.3.212>
  6. Date: 19 Aug 92 04:56:59 GMT
  7. References: <1992Aug18.085018.1645@fwi.uva.nl>
  8. Sender: news@gallant.apple.com
  9. Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
  10. Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
  11. Lines: 15
  12.  
  13. In article <1992Aug18.085018.1645@fwi.uva.nl>, geniene@fwi.uva.nl (Geniene
  14. (Sheep)) wrote:
  15. > 
  16. > They're going to work with this stack in a hospital, so I'd 
  17. > like to have some advice on how I can lock it properly, so that those
  18. > hospital person's can't delete it.
  19.  
  20. You can't stop an idiot, no matter how hard you try.
  21.  
  22. Nevertheless, set the Finder's lock bit in the Get Info dialog and
  23. Hypercard's cantDelete property in its Protect Stack dialog.  This won't
  24. stop anyone from dragging it to the trash, but it will prevent the trash
  25. from being emptied. It will make the stack read only though.
  26.  
  27. Jon
  28.