Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!leonardr From: leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: System 6.0 bug (feature?) Message-ID: <46100199@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 18 Aug 88 18:00:00 GMT References: <9846@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Lines: 25 Nf-ID: #R:dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU:9846:uxe.cso.uiuc.edu:46100199:000:1367 Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!leonardr Aug 18 13:00:00 1988 isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu(Ken Hancock) writes in comp.sys.mac >Ran into an interesting problem today. In my System Folder, I have >a number of INITs. I decided I didn't want them on the desktop, >so I checked off the INVISIBLE bit. Well, funny thing is that now >they don't load. Since when does invisible = nonexistant? >Comments from Apple? > Well I don't work for Apple, but the answer is that this is a FEATURE of the new system. In order to alleviate the problems with Viruses, the new system will NOT recognize invisable files so that a virus can not put an invisable file in your system file which does cruel things. Neat, huh? +---------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ + + Any thing I say may be taken as + + Leonard Rosenthol + fact, then again you might decide+ + President, LazerWare, inc. + that it really isn't, so you + + + never know, do you?? + + leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu + + + GEnie: MACgician + MacNET: MACgician + + Delphi: MACgician + + + + + +---------------------------------+-----------------------------------+