Re: Password protecting a file?

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From: John Savage
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 00:00

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mcarroll@MBnet.MB.CA (Killjoy Carroll) wrote:
>Students in our high school computer lab often "shell out" of
>programs like Turbo Pascal to the c: prompt and then they edit
>progman.ini and in so doing change the subsequent windows environment.
>We don't want them to [...]

Someone posted a neat suggestion here recently about thwarting that
exit to shell route.  His suggestion was to define the COMSPEC
environment variable in autoexec.bat to be COMSPEC=C:\NUL

This should bring unauthorized explorations to a shuddering halt,
provided it can be implemented without affecting applications.
--
John Savage               koala@sydney.dialix.com.au

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From: John Savage <koala@sydney.dialix.com.au>
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Date: 1995/12/27
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