[comp.sys.mac] Making a hard disk read-only: here's what you need

mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus) (06/29/89)

Over the past few weeks, people have been asking about write-protecting
a hard disk.  Well, here is the solution.  It is a little desk accessory
called DiskLock that does the work for you.  It is very small (about 4K)
but does the job nicely.  I tried posting to the binaries group, but I
am getting it bounced back, so I posted here.

This is version 1.0 written by Jeff Shulman.  Permission is granted by the
author for non-commercial distribution.

-Michael

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Michael Niehaus        UUCP: <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!mithomas
Apple Student Rep      ARPA:  mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu
Ball State University  AppleLink: ST0374 (from UUCP: st0374@applelink.apple.com)