Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!hwcs!neil From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: Hidden folders (was Hidden Files) Message-ID: <2088@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk> Date: 5 Feb 91 11:49:12 GMT References: <1991Jan16.163558.26338@arc.ab.ca> <1991Jan21.053855.1449@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> <8800@star.cs.vu.nl> <15861@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <2814@atari.UUCP> Sender: news@cs.hw.ac.uk Reply-To: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland Lines: 18 In article 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? That would be fantastic! I would love to hide folders and protect their contents this way. As it is I can hide a folder by flipping the bit manually using a disk editor. (It's OK Allan I reboot afterwards!) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ! DISCLAIMER:Unless otherwise stated, the above comments are entirely my own ! ! ! ! Neil Forsyth JANET: neil@uk.ac.hw.cs ! ! Dept. of Computer Science ARPA: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk ! ! Heriot-Watt University UUCP: ..!ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!neil ! ! Edinburgh, Scotland, UK "That was never 5 minutes!" ! +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+