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read/write Last modified: Friday, July 30, 2004
(rēd/rīt) (adj.) Capable of being displayed (read) and modified (written to). Most objects (disks, files, directories) are read/write, but operating systems also allow you to protect objects with a read-only attribute that prevents other users from modifying the object.
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