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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!ohstpy!mecsys!oecn_smith
  2. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  3. Subject: Re: Did microsoft really write an OS/2 "Terminator" crash prog?
  4. Message-ID: <1992Dec29.142331.777@mec.ohio.gov>
  5. From: oecn_smith@mec.ohio.gov
  6. Date: 29 Dec 92 14:23:31 -0500
  7. Reply-To: smith@leeca.oecn.ohio.gov
  8. References: <gershon.725175162@husc.harvard.edu> <Bzs05v.6ME@unx.sas.com> <1992Dec29.052115.27441@cbnews.cb.att.com> <laird.725643909@thistle.ecn.purdue.edu>
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  10. Organization: Metrop. Educ. Council, Columbus, OH
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  13. In article <laird.725643909@thistle.ecn.purdue.edu>, laird@thistle.ecn.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird) writes:
  14. > shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr) writes:
  15. > 
  16. > I'd sure love some simple security that would keep people from deleting
  17. > files like config.sys.  I thought that something like that was available
  18. > for OS/2, but I can't recall.
  19. > 
  20. > --kyler
  21.  
  22. Hmmm, I must be simpleminded, but setting permission to read-only should keep
  23. the casual user from doing to much harm.
  24.  
  25. bob - smith@leeca.oecn.ohio.gov
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