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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Warning: HIDORAMA on STart disk
Summary: more details
Message-ID: <1991Jan28.140353.12356@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 28 Jan 91 14:03:53 GMT
References: <1991Jan27.212033.23890@cs.dal.ca> <16081@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <16081@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> ss60wbi@sdcc4.ucsd.edu (G. "Maddog" Knauss) writes:
>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
>>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.

The files I tested were WP macro files.  They were not protected.

>	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?

TOS 1.2 on a Mega 2.

Bill Silvert
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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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