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From: ed@odi.com (Ed Schwalenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: unmoveble blocks in Norton Speed disk
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.160250.5650@odi.com>
Date: 5 Jun 91 16:02:50 GMT
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In-Reply-To: raymond@math.berkeley.edu's message of Wed, 5 Jun 1991 04:13:13 GMT

In article <1991Jun5.041313.264@agate.berkeley.edu> raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen) writes:
  Actually, it seems that Norton not only refuses to move hidden files,
  but also refuses to move anything that lives inside a hidden directory.

  (This is the Right Thing, since hidden files and hidden directories
  might be part of copy protection schemes; actually, hidden directories
  are officially illegal under MS-DOS, though they seem to work okay.)

The "RM" and "UNDEL" programs that come with Microsoft C 6.0 use
hidden directories.  I'd like to know what your "official" source is.