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- From: andy@epma.demon.co.uk (andy)
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- Subject: Re: Hidden files
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 23:15:41 GMT
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- ROB>> Do any of you know of a good way to hide files? I've seen sever
- ROB>> where 95% of all files are hidden and they are invisible to dir,
- ROB>> etc. Any suggestions? Thanks.
- ROB>> Robert
- ROB>> rbanksto@whale.st.usm.edu
- >I don't know about hidden, but I just had a weird set to with AmFTP's
- >"show" function. I was checking some .txt files I had placed and the
- >download placed a leading period in the scratch name. The viewer then could
- >not load it, viewer=multiview. However I could see the files and read them
- >with my directory utility. Now I just hope nobody else thinks the files are
- >blank since they really aren't!
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- >Just my $.02 US worth.
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- >/* Gene Heskett | These opinions are NOT to be */
- >/* CE @ WDTV Weston/Clarksburg WV | confused with the official */
- >/* <gene_heskett@wvlink.mpl.com> | WDTV managment views */
- >#include <std.disclaimer>
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- I would like to find out more about hidden files with AmigaDOS, I know that
- Ami-FileSafe makes a new directory on each partition called ".deldir", via the
- shell/WB/File Manager you cannot see this file though you can cd in it etc.
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- How is this done? Is it file-system specific or what?
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