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From: rosenqui@crc.skl.dnd.ca (Eric Rosenquist)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Hidden Files
Message-ID: <1991Jan16.210809.14794@crc.skl.dnd.ca>
Date: 16 Jan 91 21:08:09 GMT
References: <1991Jan16.163558.26338@arc.ab.ca>
Organization: Software Kinetics Limited
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In article <1991Jan16.163558.26338@arc.ab.ca> erkamp@arc.ab.ca (Bob Erkamp) writes:
>Is there a program that will 'reveal' hidden files on the atari? I was using
>STMirror on my drive and discovered a hidden file (Neodesk.dat) and I think 
>that it really sucks that NeoDesk 3.0 creates this file. I would like to know
>what's in it and why it's there.
>
>Bob

NeoDesk stores the "drive name" in that file.  If you click on the
drive icon then select "Show Information" you'll see a place where you
can change (or remove) the name.  If a drive has a name, it will
appear in the bottom line of any window open on that drive.

They went this route since GEMDOS (and DOS) only allows 'volume'
labels to be 12 characters, just like a filename.  In the older
versions of TOS it was also rather tricky (from a programming point of
view) to change a volume name once you'd set it.

Eric