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From: hd7x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Sanjay Aiyagari)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: How to hide a directory
Message-ID: <1990Dec11.025717.1523@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 11 Dec 90 06:57:17 GMT
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In article <90340.130432G22QC@CUNYVM.BITNET>, G22QC@CUNYVM writes:
> Can anybody tell me how to hide a directory in Dos 3.30 or Dos 4.0?
> I learned that we can use Debug, but I don't know how to do it.
> Thanks for any response.
> Eddie Wu

There are countless utilities on SIMTEL to do this.  One of my favorites is a
PC Magazine utility called ATTR.  It works similarly to the DOS ATTRIB command
except that there are -s and -h parameters for system and hidden files.  To
hide a directory called SECRET, you would type:
attr +h secret
Sanjay Aiyagari (hd7x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu)