Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:48524 alt.msdos.programmer:1487 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!alberta!dvinci!reeves From: reeves@dvinci.usask.ca (Malcolm Reeves) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,alt.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Hiding/Protecting Directories Message-ID: <1990Apr13.173945.15786@dvinci.usask.ca> Date: 13 Apr 90 17:39:45 GMT References: Distribution: na Organization: University of Saskatchewan Lines: 12 From article , by deen@topaz.rutgers.edu (Cinnamon Raisin): > > Does anyone know of a way of passowrd protecting a directory and > it's contents? > A simple but fairly effective method is the make the first character in the directory name ASCII 127. This is the delete/backspace character and makes the directory invisible and difficult to "cd" to on the command line. If you make all the files read only you should be fairly well protected from accidental deletion. There is no way to protect from malicious deletion by someone who knows their way around ms-dos - like your friendly computer lab manager :-)