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- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!jenk
- From: jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer)
- Subject: Re: How do you hide msdos dirs
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.071954.9124@microsoft.com>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 07:19:54 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <Byy1K3.910@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> <1992Dec11.111301.16834@reks.uia.ac.be> <1gaseuINNlbr@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
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- In article <1gaseuINNlbr@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> ted@helios.UCSC.EDU (Ted Cantrall) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec11.111301.16834@reks.uia.ac.be> neurogen@reks.uia.ac.be (Neurogenetica) writes:
- >->You can set the hidden bit in the attribute byte (the same
- >->byte that says that your 'file' is in fact a directory).
- >-----------
- >In DOS 5 (maybe 4?), use the ATTRIB command. "attrib +h dos /d" will hide the
- >dos directory.
-
- ...if using 4DOS, which has an internal attrib command with a /d switch...
-
- In MS-DOS 5, "attrib +h dos" will hide the dos directory. /D will cause
- an error if you're not using 4DOS.
- In MS-DOS 4, there's no user command to set the hidden attribute of
- subdirectories (you can toggle the hidden attribute on files which
- aren't subdirectories with the dosshell). There are many utilities which
- will set it tho (I personally like DiskEdit from Norton's, which earns
- me a lot of ribbing from my "Not Using Debug Proves You're A Wimp" friend).
- (But then he's a jock - wrestler - was first in state for his weight class
- his senior year in high school - testosterone poisioning, I guess ;-)
-
- -jen
- I'm not an MS-DOS support person anymore, I just sound like one.
-
-