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From: ss60wbi@sdcc4.ucsd.edu (G. "Maddog" Knauss)
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Subject: Re: Hidden folders (was Hidden Files)
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Date: 21 Jan 91 23:22:41 GMT
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You can make ANY file think it's a folder by fiddling with
GEMDOS(67).  This call will let you read or write all the file
attributes for anything on the disk, HIDDEN, SYSTEM, PROTECTED, all
that.  I shudder to think of what's going to happen to the disk
structure if the file isn't actually a folder, though.  A friend of
mind was goofing around with folder structures and managed to put a
folder inside itself, transforming it into Rusty the Undeletable
Folder..
	And to whoever was trying to find out what hidden files are
on his harddrive, START just published my "Hide-O-Rama."  It lets
you view and change the attributes for HIDDEN and SYSTEM files.
Little Green File Selector also displays HIDDEN files, and I think
UIS does as well.
				That way to a man's heart is through
				his ribcage,
				Greg "Maddog" Knauss