On Fri,03.Jul.09, 18:52:51, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > Back in the dim distant past I remember that one could create hidden > or "secret" file with Basic on DOS and at least early Windows (3.0). > I was never able to figure out where those files were. > > Any way, is there a way of doing this in linux? I know that some > commands/programs won't show .xx files by default, but that isn't > the same sort of thing as Basic did. The equivalent of the DOS/Windows "hidden" attribute are the UNIX/Linux dotfiles. If you wanted to hide some files beyond that there were various tricks, like creating a file/directory named " " (space), as they were not very obvious. I'm sure a google search will reveal some equivalent tricks also for a UNIX/Linux environment. What is it you are trying to achieve? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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