Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!gacvx2.gac.edu!gacvx2.gac.edu!scott From: scott@texnext.gac.edu (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: .hidden magic Message-ID: Date: 14 Mar 91 17:45:46 GMT References: Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College Lines: 22 Nntp-Posting-Host: texnext.gac.edu In-reply-to: jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu's message of 14 Mar 91 11:54:20 GMTLines: 22 In article jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu (Jim Wright) writes: I've stumbled across the /.hidden file. Where is this documented? I'm not sure that it is in 2.0. It was in 1.0, somewhere, I think . . . In particular I would like to make some but not all of the subdirectories of /usr visible. Any ideas? You can have a .hidden file in any directory. In this file is a list of "things" in that directory that you want hidden in the Workspace and Open/Save panels ("things" means files and directories). Just a simple flat list, a file per line. This doesn't affect Expert view, I think. Later, -- scott hess scott@gac.edu Independent NeXT Developer GAC Undergrad "Tried anarchy, once. Found it had too many constraints . . ." "I smoke the nose Lucifer . . . Banana, banana."