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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: stupidity in directory management?
Message-ID: <3671@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-Jul-87 20:04:24 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 28 20:04:24 1987
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References: <8414@brl-adm.ARPA> <1495@ihdev.ATT.COM> <13497@topaz.rutgers.edu>
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Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <13497@topaz.rutgers.edu> by hedrick@topaz.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick):
+---------------
| pdg@ihdev.uucp mentioned that he couldn't think of any use for
| invisible files on TOPS-20.  Invisible files were added for the
>...
| control whether it is allowed to open invisible files.  The only use I
| know of for invisible files outside the archive system is scaring
| users.  If somebody leaves a job logged in in a public room, people
| sometimes set all their files invisible.  (At less friendly
+---------------

I protected myself on CWRU20 with a CMD file which popped a message onto the
terminal and then went to sleep until I hit a particular key, at which point
it prompted for a password which would unlock the terminal.  This actually
had mnemonic value, also:  long printer check?  type TAKE 5 and leave!
-- 
 Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc and comp.binaries.ibm.pc
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