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From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Protecting directories from peeping eyes (how???)
Summary: leave visible, but make impossible to CD to
Message-ID: <239d466a@ralf>
Date: 7 Dec 88 14:55:38 GMT
Sender: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu
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In-Reply-To: <838@novavax.UUCP>

In article <838@novavax.UUCP>, nanook@novavax.UUCP (Keith Dickinson) writes:
}in article <46@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>, greggt@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Gregg Thompson) says:
}>       I am in need of protecting directories from being read by "normal"
}> means.  I need it so that ncd and other dos directory utility programs
}> won't acknowledge the directory.  Or something that will password the
}
}Gregg,
}  There is a simple way to do what you are asking. It's not passwording, but
} [hiding the directory].

Since most utilities will make the directory visible anyway, another
possibility is to leave the directory in plain sight, but make it impossible
to change to it without knowing the trick.  Just type
        "MKDIR FOO "
where the last "blank" is really an Alt-255.  You could even put the directory
in your path as the last entry without the Alt-255 being noticed.  It does,
however, show up with CHKDSK/V.

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