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From: berggren@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Eric Berggren)
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Subject: Re: How can I hide files?
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Date: 20 Nov 90 07:29:20 GMT
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whos@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Ben Feen) writes:

>Is the "hold down ALT and type on the numeric keypad" trick mentioned in the
>MS-DOS users manual????

  MS-DOS 4.01 doesn't seem to care for that very much from the command-
line. 
  To hide a file, write a couple of simple utilities to create and view
files and/or directories that have the character 127 as the first character
of the name.
  
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