Protecting Your Files - Acorn computer econet level 2/3 User Manual

You cannot rename directories, but you can move a file from one
directory to another, provided they are both on the same disc.
How to do this is explained in the Using directories section of
this guide.
You may get a message "Entry locked". This means the file is
has been protected using *ACCESS, as explained in the next
section.

Protecting your files

You may want to protect your files so that other users cannot
interfere with them, and so that you cannot accidentally erase
them. This process is called setting an access string. The
command you use is *ACCESS.
You protect your file by typing *ACCESS followed by
■ the filename
■ the rights of access to the file that you want to
have yourself — the owner access rights
■ an oblique stroke character /
■ the rights of access you want to allow other users to have to
your files — the public access rights
■ [RETURN]
You specify the kind of access by using the letters W, R and L.
W means write — the file can be written to. The only way to
write to files is by random access writing — a method
described in the section of this guide on Reading and writing
to files. Unless you specify W, it will not be possible to write
to the file.
R means read — the file can be read.
L means locked — the file cannot be deleted. L is used only
to protect your files against accidental deletion by you:
your files are automatically locked to other users.
The important access letters at this stage are R and L. Their
effects are summarised in this table:
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*ACCESS