Re: protect a file

[Arun Sharma <arun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 12:10:51PM +0530, Kamal Paryani wrote:
> 
> some funny user might just delete the contents of the file
> and not delete the whole file
> then the protection will not work

That's exactly what the original poster asked for :-)
	
	-Arun

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> On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 01:14:27PM +0530, Anuj Kumar wrote:
> > Hello Dear,
> > I want protect a file. This is an excel file.
> > User can use the file, read the file, modify the file.
> > But user can not remove the file And  can not overwrite the file. 
> > How can do this ??
> 
> Make the file writable, but the directory not writable.
> 
> 	-Arun
>