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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: 1 Feb 91 20:02:51 GMT
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In article <wolfram.665404940@cip-s02> wolfram@cip-s02.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Wolfram Roesler) writes:
>
>BTW: why is it not possible to hide a folder? Just to keep people from turning
>files to folders by changing a flag? How about making a folder readonly, which
>would affect all of its files?

I asked Allan Pratt about why we couldn't hide folders, and his
response was, "Because I didn't do it that way."  Which is good
enough for me.
					It's not really a big deal,
					either way,
					Greg "Maddog" Knauss