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From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Warning: HIDORAMA on STart disk
Message-ID: <5272@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Date: 30 Jan 91 08:55:24 GMT
References: <1991Jan27.212033.23890@cs.dal.ca> <16081@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Reply-To: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
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In article <16081@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> ss60wbi@sdcc4.ucsd.edu (G. "Maddog" Knauss)
writes:
> ... 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. ...

This is a bug in TOS 1.0 and TOS 1.2. It's fixed in TOS 1.4 onwards. You will
also find that a write protected program will not get run if it's hidden.
That's fixed too.

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