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From: Greg.Smith@bohemia.UUCP (Greg Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: How can I hide files?
Message-ID: <103.273F5847@bohemia.UUCP>
Date: 12 Nov 90 14:49:00 GMT
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To: izslc19@discg1.UUCP (james cook)

jc> Is there a way I can hide files on my directory so that someone else
jc> could not see them if they did a DIR.  I want to put some
With Dos, all files have attributes.  Archive,ReadOnly,System, and HIDDEN! 
What you are looking to do is to turn the Hidden attribute on for these 
files, Dos comes with a utility called Attrib (or something like that). 
This command would hide MrGame.Exe:
Attrib -H MrGame.Exe
See your dos manual for more info.  If that doesn't work, I can give you 
some Pascal source for Hiding files.  Also, norton utilities and 4dos have 
enhanced versions of Attrib.

                                         Greg  
 
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