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- From: beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Denis Beauregard)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: alt 255
- Message-ID: <BtpI5v.3CJ@ireq.hydro.qc.ca>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 18:32:19 GMT
- References: <92238.135238MCHAMINA@ESTEC.BITNET> <exuptr.390.714845407@exu.ericsson.se>
- Sender: news@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Netnews Admin)
- Organization: Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Quebec, Varennes, Canada
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- In article <exuptr.390.714845407@exu.ericsson.se> exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (exuptr@exu.ericsson.se) writes:
- >In article <92238.135238MCHAMINA@ESTEC.BITNET> MCHAMINA@ESTEC.BITNET (CHAMINADE, MARC MICHEL LOUIS) writes:
- >
- >>If you want to prevent people to delete your files on your hd with the function
- >>del xxx.x rather than Attrib you'd better rename the files from
- >>xxx.x to
- >> xxx.x The space in front of the name is obtained with the alt-255 combination.
- >>You can not call the file or do anything to it by using the space key.
- >
- >>Some may find it usefull. I do !
- >
- >From a program, you can actually put a space (ASCII 32) in the filename.
- >This will prevent some hacker from using the alt-255 trick to delete your
- >file. Of course, if you create a file ' abc.xyz', it can be gotten rid of
- >with the command 'del *.xyz'.
- >
- > - Patrick Taylor
- > exuptr@exu.ericsson.se "Don't let the .se fool you"
- > alternately, exuptr@ZGNews.Lonestar.Org
-
- One amazing thing I saw was someone who put a file named *.* in a PC!
- The trouble is that the PC was in a remote location (50 miles from the
- nearest town), most persons working in that place having a limited
- knowledge of PC. We presumed at that time some visitor, in prevision
- of loosing a maintenance contract, decided to write some *.* files.
- A user not very familiar with PC could try to erase those annoying files ...
- and the other files as well :-( We were lucky to discover this before
- damage :-) , but unable to find who make that.
-
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