Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!dmnhieu
From: dmnhieu@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Duy-Minh NHIEU)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Protecting directories from peeping eyes (how???)
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Date: 9 Dec 88 17:18:30 GMT
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I wonder if the following solution works, my knowledge to pc-dos is minimal,

   1) Find all clusters occupied by that directory and the files under it.
   2) Remember the above clusters
   3) Delete that directory
   4) Mark the remembered clusters bad so that when you save new files, the
      system won't use those cluster.

   
to retrieve information from that directory, one has to unmark the clusters and
undelete that directory.

 
It may sound complicated but one can always write a program that do the above.