What is the Desktop file?

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From: Dave Waller
Date: Mon, 09 May 1988 23:05

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Well... I've been hearing alot about the "desktop" file and I have searched
high and low to find out exactly what it does and how I can manipulate it...
and come up with nothing! Anyway, I'm breaking down and asking the net
if they could give me some info on it:

What does it do?

What can you do to it without some sort of custom program to manipulate it?

And most of all, HOW DO YOU DELETE HIDDEN FILES?? Besides desktop. there
is another hidden file in my System folder that I'm not sure what it's
for (also, I can't remember the name right now and I'm at work) but I know
it's there because I can "see" it with ResEdit. How does one deal with these
ghostly apparitions that are showing up in my system folder??

Thansk for Gdansk in advance,

Dave

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From: dave@hpdstma.HP.COM (Dave Waller)
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Subject: What is the Desktop file?
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Date: 9 May 88 23:05:50 GMT
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