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- From: jeremyr@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Jeremy Roussak)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Software that hides apps?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.201110.12706@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 20:11:10 GMT
- References: <jobrien.26@umescsnw1.umd.edu> <26AUG199218003427@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- In <26AUG199218003427@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov> kayser@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Susan E. Kayser NSSDC/STX (301)513-1673) writes:
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- >In article <jobrien.26@umescsnw1.umd.edu>, jobrien@umescsnw1.umd.edu (JAMES M. O'BRIEN JR) writes...
- >>I'm looking for a software package that allows access to an application
- >>on a Mac in a LAB environment, but disallows copying, modifying, trashing
- >>etc. I have seen something like this but don't know its name
- >>I'd appreciate any help.
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- >Possibly the new Apple extension, At Ease, is what you mean. It substitutes
- >for the Finder. It should be available soon; I don't know the cost.
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- In the meantime, you could use my launcher, Apollo. If you tell
- Apollo where a file is, then hide the file, Apollo will still
- be able to launch it. Of course, by hiding the file (setting
- its "invisible" bit with ResEdit or some such), you lose the
- ability to launch it by double-clicking on one of its
- documents.
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- Apollo is at sumex, /ex/apollo-08b4.hqx. Free until 1.0: then
- shareware.
-
- Jeremy
-