--- Rich Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let's back up a bit. Explain, in more abstract > terms, what you're > trying to accomplish. That may allow enough wiggle > room to allow > a Unixish solution.
In short, I'm trying to make information within files accessable and modifiable, but keep the organization of the files unalterable. On the old computer we had some serious problems with people saving files in the wrong places, moving things around because they didn't like where they were (then other people either moving them back or creating a copy), making copies of files but only updating one of those copies (or worse making some uptades to one copy, others to another), etc. It's my job to prevent this from happening to the new computer. Even though I'll be cleaning the system out once a week or so, it'd be nice to set up some preemptive measures. The dispatchers obviously need to be able to read the files; often they'll need to update them. It'd be nice to prevent creating new files in "unsanctioned" places and prevent dispatchers from reorganizing the folders/files willie-nillie. Does that help give you a better idea of my goals? --- Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It shouldn't prohibit them from making changes, > unless the editing > tools they're using are trying to overwrite the > entire file (or create > a temporary file then replace the original) rather > than just modifying > it. That may very well be the problem. I'll have to investigate it further. The primary tools they use are MS Office and FileMaker Pro (though this might change with the migration to OSX) --- James Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the file? Perhaps there is a workaround. [...] > Also, have you considered aliases or symlinks? There are a bunch of files; predominately Word, Excel, and FMP files. I hadn't considered aliases. Might be able to do that... --- Joel Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That sure isn't the way I understand it. I'll check > when I get a chance > whether that's the effect on Mac OS X. Are you > trying to use the GUI > File Info interface from Finder, instead of > chmod/chown, perhaps? Nope, I'm using chmod/chown. The GUI interface hides access to the executable value so I hadn't bothered with it. ~wren __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
