Re: How to hide a file ?

[Jose Nazario <jose () biocserver BIOC cwru edu>]

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Udi dahan wrote:

> I was wondering if there's a way to hide a file under windows 2000
> server, so that it will not be seen when using "show hidden file",
> "show all files" and so on. I want to hide a file but I want to be
> able to run the file only when I know exactly where it is and what is
> the file name.

use the file streams. h carvey has written some nice documentation on
this:
http://patriot.net/~carvdawg/perl.html
http://www.chi-publishing.com/isb/backissues/ISB_2001/ISB0601/ISB0601HC.pdf

an additional discussion is available on:
http://rr.sans.org/win/ADS.php

enjoy,

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