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Article #6895Re: Hidden AmigaDos files again
From: Orion Wilson the Passable
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 1990 18:49
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 1990 18:49
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.. Yes, some hidden files are actually composed of spaces for file names, but i think that really hidden files can be made. (ie- can't be accessed from a directory utility) In the case of hackers, methinks maybe they are writing data to physical disk locations, and they know where and how to read it? .. I've also seen a looping directory, wherein a dir opt a will show a directory and within it are a file and another directory with the same name and contents as the first. Thus <dir opt a> just lists for a long while.. .. A more likely and practical way of achieving these quirks would seem to be messing with the file allocation table. (Do i have that name right?) .. Kind of like messing with the bootblock, where some really hardcore knowledge would be neeed. beep -- 6600mage@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu ## These are ## Secrets of ################################### Melodious Monk
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