hide dotfiles not working.

Niels Baggesen Niels.Baggesen at uni-c.dk
Tue Mar 31 11:53:35 GMT 1998


On Tue, Mar 31, 1998 at 20:35:52 +1000, Eddie Irvine wrote:
> I can't seem to get the "hide dotfiles" directive to work.
> Nor the "hide files"! 

Note, that the "hide files" directive does not really hide the files,
it just passes them with the DOS Hidden attribute, so if your directory
browser shows hidden files, it will show them. Otherwise consider the 
"veto files" directive

> Also, If a user on W-95 saves a file to unix called,
> say, "Joe Smith.doc", I want it to stay as 
> "Joe Smith.doc" , not be saved as "joe smith.doc" .
> (I assume there is nothing wrong with wanting this)

You should add "preserve case = yes" to your configuration

/NIels

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