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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Warning: HIDORAMA on STart disk
Message-ID: <1991Jan27.212033.23890@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 27 Jan 91 21:20:33 GMT
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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I just tried the program HIDORAMA on the Jan. 1991 STart disk, which is
supposed to modify the attribute bytes so that you can set/unset the
Hidden, System, and Protect bits on files.  It is erratic in
performance, since some hidden files vanish from the desktop and others
don't, but it appears to have scrambled some directories.  After using
it one of my HD partitions vanished entirely, although it reappeared
after a reboot.  Whether any permanent damage was done I can't say.

I suspect that HIDORAMA.PRG does not always find the right bits to
fiddle and that it is capable of doing damage.  Until someone reports
the details of the situation, I recommend against using it.
-- 
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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