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Re: alt 255

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From: Bob Mathews
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 23:27
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exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (exuptr@exu.ericsson.se) writes:
>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'.

Or with any decent sector editor or directory-maintainence program
like Xtree.  There's virtually no way of stopping a determined hacker,
but tricks like this are good for keeping newbies out of things.  I
used to use the alt-255 thing to keep people from playing my Rogue
games at school...

swehtam bob
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Subject: Re: alt 255
Message-ID: <1992Aug26.232718.118895@zeus.calpoly.edu>
From: rmathews@zeus.calpoly.edu (Bob Mathews)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 23:27:18 GMT
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Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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