Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sm.unisys.com!ism780c!ico!nbires!matt From: matt@nbires.nbi.com (Matthew Meighan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Protecting directories from peeping eyes (how???) Message-ID: <190@nbires.nbi.com> Date: 7 Dec 88 04:44:53 GMT References: <46@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU> <838@novavax.UUCP> <48@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU> Reply-To: matt@nbires.UUCP (Matthew Meighan) Distribution: na Organization: NBI Inc, Boulder CO Lines: 24 In article <48@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU> greggt@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Gregg Thompson) writes: > >Hiding a directory doesn't solve the problem. Norton utility ncd will still >see the directory even if it is hidden. I need something that will keep people >from finding the directory even with norton and hiding the directory doesn't >do it. Sorry guys. Another approach I have used, also not fool proof, is to put illegal characters in the directory name -- spaces are good; I can't remember if you can get backspaces in there or not. But somehow I got some invisible characters into directory names once (it's been a while) -- you might try ascii 255 (decimal), which prints as a space on the screen, as a trailing character in the directory name, and you might try some regular spaces, too. You can easily insert these characters into the name if you edit the directory directly with NU or debug or some such. This won't really give you what you want, either, but it would slow someone down a bit... -- --------- Matt Meighan "The eighties are the fifties in color." - Cowtown matt@nbires.nbi.com (nbires\!matt)