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From: cpc@vaxine.UUCP (Chris Cullen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hidden Subdirectories
Message-ID: <396@vaxine.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Jan-87 09:42:30 EST
Article-I.D.: vaxine.396
Posted: Tue Jan 20 09:42:30 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 21-Jan-87 04:35:10 EST
References: <568@pbhyc.UUCP> <14366@amdcad.UUCP>
Organization: Automatix, Inc., Billerica, MA
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> In article <568@pbhyc.UUCP> jdf@pbhyc.UUCP (Jack Fine) writes:
> >
> >Got a question.  Can I make a subdirectory hidden like a hidden file?  And
> >if so, can I then access it like a normal subdirectory?  If all this can be
> >done, how?
> >
> >I think I may be asking a lot but hopefully it can be done.
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Jack
> 
> I've seen this done, but it was with a sub-directory name of non-displayable
> characters.  There exists a PD package of programs that ar called:
> 	MDSKRT		make directory secret
> 	CDSKRT		change directory secret
> 	RDSKRT		remove directory secret
> when you list directories, the secret entries dont appear, but once you
> have cd'ed to it you can access the files.  Pathnames cant include these
> secret subdirectories (because you cant type it in)  
> You should be able to find this software on a BBS near you

The easiest way is just to make a normal directory, then hide it using
'chmod' which was recently posted.  Get a look at it with 'ls', a little
less recently posted. Why make yet more special-purpose utilities when
the general ones are so useful?

All commands that access files in the directory work as before; you just
have to know it's there.
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