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From: 6600mage@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Orion Wilson the Passable)
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Subject: Re: Hidden AmigaDos files again
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Date: 21 Nov 90 18:49:57 GMT
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.. Yes, some hidden files are actually composed of
spaces for file names, but i think that really
hidden files can be made. (ie- can't be accessed
from a directory utility) In the case of hackers,
methinks maybe they are writing data to physical
disk locations, and they know where and how to read
it?  
.. I've also seen a looping directory, wherein
a dir opt a will show a directory and within it
are a file and another directory with the same
name and contents as the first. Thus <dir opt a>
just lists for a long while..

	.. A more likely and practical way of
achieving these quirks would seem to be messing with
the file allocation table. (Do i have that name
right?) .. Kind of like messing with the bootblock,
where some really hardcore knowledge would be
neeed. 

		beep

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