Mac visible file bit?

[Rick Harrison]

on 5/23/2002 12:38 PM, Dreamscape Software at
webmaster at dreamscapesoftware.com wrote:

>> Put a . in front of the filename, that will make them invisible in Mac OSX
>> and all other Unixes as well.
> 
> This is true but there are some programs that can identify these files.  I
> know that Transmit is one of them, and I'm pretty sure that BBEdit is
> another.  If someone could verify this then that would be great, otherwise
> it's just me.
> 
> Though I would recomend using this method over the the previous that I
> mentioned.  This one is a lot safer.
> 
> 
> Derek Bump
> Dreamscape Software, Inc.
> http://www.dreamscapesoftware.com/
> 

Derek,

Thanks for your Mac OS X insights.  I'll give it a try.

Thanks again,

Rick Harrison