Re: How to hide directories and files?

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From: Steve_Kite
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1990 20:27

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You could write a program to place an unprintable characte,
such as the delete character, in front of the name.  I have
seen programs on different bulletin boards to do this.  While
this will hide the file from a dir a utility such as PCTOOLS
will still be able to see the file.
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From: stevek@hp-ptp.HP.COM (Steve_Kite)
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