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From: jdh@bsu-cs.UUCP (John Hiday)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hidden bit
Message-ID: <4866@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 26 Nov 88 18:26:01 GMT
References: <999@hub.ucsb.edu> <d7l2a73t071010S3atQ@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Reply-To: jdh@bsu-cs.UUCP (John Hiday)
Organization: Ball State University UCS, Muncie, IN
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In article <d7l2a73t071010S3atQ@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> kim@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) writes:
>I read about the "hidden" attribute someplace too (AmigaWorld's series
>on 1.3 maybe ?), but the 1.3 Protect command doesn't support it.

It may not be documented (or used by anything else), but the 1.3 Protect
command will twiddle the hidden bit.  List will show the h bit in the
leftmost protection flag field.  Dir and List don't seem to pay any
attention to it yet though.

1> protect xxx +h
1> list xxx
xxx                           90 h---rwed Today     06:16:33
                                                    ^^^^^^^^
               Sh*t, looks like my 2000's clock bit it again.

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