RA> The problem is that although there are set up numerous
RA> documents and letters there is apparently no way to
RA> satisfactorily protect these documents from accidental
RA> changes or erasure.
It sounds like what you have installed is not a real network with appropriate 
permission management.  In that case, I must assume this is some kind of 
"shoestring" operation.  Sometimes a brute force, simple answer may go a long 
way to help these kinds of situations.  How about setting all the documents 
as read-only using the dos ATTRIB command? We've done that for config.sys and 
autoexec.bat on user's PCs for years and its very effective.  I use it on my 
own PC to prevent accidents caused by my own fat fingers.
Bob
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