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From: colin@ultima.socs.uts.edu.au (Colin Panisset)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Hidden AmigaDOS files?
Message-ID: <18621@ultima.socs.uts.edu.au>
Date: 16 Nov 90 09:02:13 GMT
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inb300campbe@qut.edu.au writes:


-Does anybody know how to make files invisible in AmigaDOS?

-I have seen hidden directories created on a floppy which you can CD into but
-don't show up in a DIR listing, but is it possible under FFS?  HOW?

  Roight. This has happened to me. At least once. I'm annoyed, coz the standard
dox provided by Commodore (what little there is), mention it not at all. I
have one dir on my HD (A Quantum Prodrive 40Mb, with Trumpcard), under FFS,
and it's NOT THERE under any dir listing. From ANY application/shell/cli/
whatever. I can CD into it, or get into it by specifically naming it in the
file requester. Oh, I'm using 1.3.2 by the way.

  Can anyone give me an idea of what the hell is going on? I dont remember
setting any hidden bit on the dir, and nothing I've tried (protect, etc) has
had any effect. 

  All this guff about it not being implemented.... I wonder, sometimes.

-  -- David Campbell

-inb300campbe@redgum.qut.edu.au
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