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From: francis@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Francis Ho)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hidden subdirectories??
Message-ID: <1990Jun11.163043.12205@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 11 Jun 90 16:30:43 GMT
References: <6350.266e60ce@jetson.uh.edu> <1990Jun10.184342.21882@caen.engin.umich.edu>
Reply-To: francis@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Francis Ho)
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In article <1990Jun10.184342.21882@caen.engin.umich.edu> jal@acc (John Lauro) writes:
>In article <6350.266e60ce@jetson.uh.edu> bchs1b@jetson.uh.edu writes:
>>Is there any way to change the attribute on a directory or subdirectory
>>so that it is hidden? I would like a subdirectory not to appear when
>>someone is casually looking at the disk, but if you CD to the subdirectory
>>then all the files will be visible. 
>>
>The easiest way I know of is a pd program called chmod.com.  It's only
>about 6k long, and works well for files and directories.  This is a

>Sorry, I don't know a archive that has this.  (I know I seen it many places.)
>If you can't find it, mail me and I'll mail a uuencoded copy.
>
>   - John Lauro    john_lauro@ub.cc.umich.edu

it is available at simtel under the picnix package/arc files [unix like
commands for pc's] 


-francis

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