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- From: fish@csc.liv.ac.uk (S.E. Morris)
- Subject: Re: Hidden files
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- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 11:11:42 GMT
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- In article <4gflta$ju4@cc.tut.fi>,
- l154508@proffa.cc.tut.fi (Lindqvist Marko) writes:
- >
- >: As far as I know there is no way to hide files using the
- >: standard attributes AmigaDOS uses. I suspect the demos
- >: you are refering to infact store the data they require
- >: directly onto the disk without using the normal AmigaDOS
- >: file system. The demo program itself has to know exactly
- >: where on the disk everything is stored, because AmigaDOS
- >: can no longer find anything for itself.
- >
- > If this is correct, what happens when you save new files to that disk?
- >Probably AmigaDOS thinks there is free space and saves over hidden
- >files...
- > And if this is correct, then hidden files seem to be just like deleted
- >files...
- >
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- >
- > - No english sig available.
-
- Not necessarily. If I remember correctly, AmigaDOS stores a map of
- which sections of the disk are in use separately to the directory
- listing. Therefore, it may be possible to reserve some blocks on
- a disk without actually setting up a file for them.
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