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!Invisible by R. Pfeifer: v0.1
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Hide your files fom nosey eyes.
Works best if you have your filer windows sorted
alphabetically. Pointless if you have full info.
There is a sample hidden file in this directory; try
running !SeeMe.
Hides files. To hide some files, name them in the
name range Hidden1-10, e.g. Hidden5, and then copy
MakeHidden into the same directory, then run it.
They will vanish from sight and MakeHidden will
delete that copy of itself (to avoid telltale copies
of it revealing you have hidden files in that
directory & forgotten to remove MakeHidden).
Please note, if you hide a file called, e.g.,
Hidden3, you cannot then name another file Hidden3
and hide that also. The hider program will produce
an error if you make it try to.
These files have now had their icons set to mask
all over and been renamed a string of 1-10 hard
spaces (ascii code 160), the number of which depends
on which number they had after the word Hidden in
their filename. To un-hide them, just double-click
on where they should be (beyond the end of the other
files in the window). If you can't find them, two
other applications are provided (!SeeMe and !HideMe)
to reveal these files by changing their icons to
black (but not actually un-packing them) and re-hide
them. Guard these applications well or anyone can
find your hidden files.
It is essential to include a line to Filer_Boot
!Invisible in your desktop !Boot file or the files
won't be invisible after all, just of unknown type.
If you ever use your original copy of MakeHidden
(it is self-deleting), just run !Invisible to
create another.
If you try to hide a file called e.g. Hidden4 and
there is one previously called Hidden4 already
concealed in that directory, the program stop, but
if it was also hiding files called Hidden1-3, these
will be successful. Those of names Hidden5-10 will
be unhidden as the program stopped before it reached
them.
That's it, really.
R. Pfeifer.