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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Path: sparky!uunet!world!bmarcum
- From: bmarcum@world.std.com (Bill Marcum)
- Subject: Re: Need Action! help
- Message-ID: <Bzqr68.D30@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1992Dec23.200020.18009@neb>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 02:06:08 GMT
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- I think the only way to lock out the configuration menu would be to
- disconnect the SELECT and/or RESET key. But if you change the hard
- disk configuration, a user would have to know where each partition
- begins, to access that partition. Then again, fooling around with
- that data could be risky. You can write-protect partitions, or
- disable them, but anyone who knows enough about the computer can
- undo that. You can put data in password-protected ARCs, if you don't
- mind unarcing the files each time you use them....
- Another idea: the source code for Mydos is available if anyone wants
- to try adding password protection to it. I forgot: were you worried
- about people seeing/copying your files, or erasing them? If the
- latter, be sure you have backups!
-
- One other possibility--it's expensive, and I don't know much about how
- it works, but CSS makes a device called the Multiplexer, which lets
- two computers access the same hard drive. I think only one computer
- has to have an MIO... You would have to ask Bob Puff, or someone who
- has one, for more information about it.
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- Bill Marcum bmarcum@world.std.com
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