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In article <92238.135238MCHAMINA@ESTEC.BITNET> MCHAMINA@ESTEC.BITNET (CHAMINADE, MARC MICHEL LOUIS) writes:
>From: MCHAMINA@ESTEC.BITNET (CHAMINADE, MARC MICHEL LOUIS)
>Subject: alt 255
>Date: 25 Aug 92 22:31:59 GMT

>If you want to prevent people to delete your files on your hd with the function
>del xxx.x rather than Attrib you'd better rename the files from
>xxx.x to
> xxx.x The space in front of the name is obtained with the alt-255 combination.
>You can not call the file or do anything to it by using the space key.

>Some may find it usefull. I do !

From a program, you can actually put a space (ASCII 32) in the filename.  
This will prevent some hacker from using the alt-255 trick to delete your 
file.  Of course, if you create a file ' abc.xyz', it can be gotten rid of
with the command 'del *.xyz'.

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