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From: ss60wbi@sdcc4.ucsd.edu (G. "Maddog" Knauss)
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Subject: Re: Warning: HIDORAMA on STart disk
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Date: 27 Jan 91 23:15:30 GMT
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In article <1991Jan27.212033.23890@cs.dal.ca> silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) writes:
>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.
>
> [Conclusion about staying away from this obviously dangerous
>  program deleted.]
>
>William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography

Mea cupla, and it's not my fault.  Apparently, when a file has it's
PROTECT bit set, it ignores both the HIDDEN and SYSTEM attribues,
don't ask me why.  I thought I had checked this before shipping the
stupid thing off to Start, but I just tried it and it doesn't work.
You can HIDE and SYSTEM files just fine, as long as they are not
PROTECTED as well.  I'm a little confused why this does this, but
that's nothing new.
	As to why you got "scrambled directories" and "disappearing
partitians"...  Geez.  I dunno.  I've been using HOD for over a year
now and haven't had any trouble.  What TOS are you using?
					Damn, I HATE it when I look
					like an idiot,
					Greg "STOP staring at me!"
					Knauss