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- From: hugh@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (Hugh D. Gamble)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
- Subject: Re: How to Solve the Problem of A3000 C= CD-ROM Support
- Message-ID: <6309@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 21:29:31 GMT
- References: <278@cbmswe.se.so.commodore.com> <1992Aug25.162610.3329@news.iastate.edu> <168577F91.SBACIR2@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu>
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- In article <168577F91.SBACIR2@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu> SBACIR2@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu writes:
- > By the way you publishers of CDROMS turn on the "write" and the "delete"
- >protect bits for the files you master to CDROM. It's a pain to use TURBOTEXT
- >and not be able to edit a file because it is read only. See how much fun it is
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- That's a pretty awful hack. The files can't be writable or deleteable.
- People would yell and scream if those permissions were set. There's no
- point in having permission bits if you're just going to ignore them.
- The end result is the same as the "hacks" you hate that bypass file
- permissions.
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- People have posted explanations of how to change the permissions of a
- copy you make to a writeable device, it works just fine, You don't
- have a whole OS for nothing.
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- There's a more serious problem with read only filesystems under
- AmigaOS. Some broken software either tries to write, or actually does,
- when there's no need to. The solution to that, is to get your
- application s/w fixed or switch to other s/w. If you can't avoid
- running s/w that wants to put a write lock on your CD, then you need a
- hack. CD-FS by Canadian Prototype Replicas has an option to tell the
- driver to fake writes, and really send them to the bit bucket. That
- fixes things as cleanly as possible, at the right place to do it, too,
- I think.
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