Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!uhccux!cfht.hawaii.edu!jwright From: jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu (Jim Wright) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: .hidden magic Message-ID: Date: 20 Mar 91 08:07:37 GMT Article-I.D.: cfht.jwright.669456457 References: Sender: news@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu Lines: 24 I wrote: >I've stumbled across the /.hidden file. Where is this documented? In >particular I would like to make some but not all of the subdirectories >of /usr visible. Any ideas? Thanks for the responses. From NextAnswers, workspace.325: The .hidden file controls WHICH files are shown only to UNIX Experts, in addition to the dot files. There can be a .hidden file in any directory; each .hidden file only applies to the containing directory. Sounds good. And it works exactly that way in the / directory. But I can't get it to work in any subdirectory. If I edit /.hidden, then go to the File Viewer and press command-u, the viewer updates itself to reflect the changes. However no changes to /usr/.hidden seem to have any effect. The workspace.325 file says this applies to both 1.0 and 2.0. I can't get it to work in 2.0. I just got 1.0a and haven't tried it there yet. -- Jim Wright jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corp.