Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mitel!rupert!infotech
From: infotech@rupert.misemi ( infotech)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hidden subdirectories??
Message-ID: <3559@rupert.misemi>
Date: 12 Jun 90 15:49:02 GMT
References: <6350.266e60ce@jetson.uh.edu> <2671ae04-3c3.1comp.sys.ibm.pc-1@oneb>
Reply-To: infotech@rupert.UUCP (Ross Bannerman - infotech)
Organization: MITEL Corporation, Kanata, Ontario, Canada.
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>>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. 
>

PC-TOOLS allows you to  change the attributes of a sub-dir... I try to avoid
using a FAT editor to do it as you can really $%#@ up a (hard) disk if you
change the wrong bit... I would think Norton Util. will let you do the same
thing, but I don't use that package...

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