ACSAZ@SEMASSU.BITNET (When I grow up I wanna be a Redneck) (12/19/89)
Just an idea that may make most of our lives a bit easier. On our
servers at SMU students often save their papers on the system disks.
Well as anybody knows this is not cool when they fill up. Soo I throw
them away. Not nice but I thought it got the job done until I noticed
that the desktop remembers the icons (and other stuff) that these
files contained. Sooo I did some thinking and locked the desktops.
The result is that when papers are saved their icon's are not so
throwing them away still restores the disk to it's original free
space. Hmmmmm (I said to my self) Wouldn't this work well in
preventing those disks from getting WDEF? If the message from the
last Virus-l was true then this should halt the spread of our new
little virus. But only use it if you do not expect the contents of
your disk to change - as in adding or removing files. I hope this
works.
- Alex Zavatone Mac Software
Southeastern Mass U