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From: leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: System 6.0 bug (feature?)
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Date: 18 Aug 88 18:00:00 GMT
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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?


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