Good tip.
If WSH is allowed, one can use that for the use of CACLS. The advantage is that, as compared to using RUN, the appearance of the dos-window can be suppressed with the 3rd parameter.
oShell = createobject("WScript.Shell")
lcRun = "CACLS file.txt /P JIM:F < yes.txt"
lnRC = oShell.Run(lcRun, 1, .T.)
>What about using CACLS.EXE since that is present on any machine running winnt 4 or above.
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>>>True. However, it is more than nothing. What do you additionally suggest?
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>>I thought of SetFileSecurity but I don't have ready out of the box code for that one.
>>Cetin
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