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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 12:48:00 EST
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- From: Charlie Reitsma <REITSMAC@DENISON.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: execute only flag
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- >I think you will find that there are architectural limitations in
- >the DOS API that preclude the existance of an X flag, having nothing to
- >do with NetWare. How is DOS to know whether you are reading or
- >executing a file? For those programs whose overlays are
- >contained in the executable, and do their own overlay management,
- >how is DOS going to know if an overlay is being read to memory,
- >or read to memory and then written to another medium? I imagine
- >the DOS COPY command and all other commands implementing such
- >functionality could artificially observe an X flag convention,
- >but anyone could issue a few DOS interrupts and copy the file anyway.
-
- Right and the last time I set Copy Inhibit on a Macintosh I was able to get
- around it by using Stuffit to put the file on my diskette.
-