I try to hide some drawers on my HD SFS formatted under MorphOS.
I expected that the easiest way to do that should be to use the "protect h add" Amiga DOS command, but it wount work the way I need.
Ambient still displays "hidden" drawers within its listers and filerequesters as well as DirectoryOpus 4.16. I was told that Opus Magellan hides files with H flag set, but this is only a single app and I need to do that in the whole system and its apps.


[ Edited by r-tea on 2007/1/13 14:27 ]

Mac mini G4@1,5GHz silent upgrade + Xerox Phaser 3140 + EPSON Perfection 1240U
Commodore C64C + 2 x 1541II + Datasette + SD-Box

I miss draggable screens... and do you? I know I'm in a minority unfortunately.

According to autodocs, there's no such thing as hide.
The H-flag was never supported by FFS/SFS AFAIK.

#define FIBF_SCRIPT (1 << FIBB_SCRIPT)
#define FIBF_PURE (1 << FIBB_PURE)
#define FIBF_ARCHIVE (1 << FIBB_ARCHIVE)
#define FIBF_READ (1 << FIBB_READ)
#define FIBF_WRITE (1 << FIBB_WRITE)
#define FIBF_EXECUTE (1 << FIBB_EXECUTE)
#define FIBF_DELETE (1 << FIBB_DELETE)

It is supported, but it's meaning is not hide, it's hold. If set on an executable where pure is also set, the executable will be made resident on first invocation.

I've found a solution.
I use SFSObject command. It's easy and effective.
Hidden files and drawers are still available by typeing their full paths.
http://martin-alt.lichtvoll.de/amiga/programme/SFSobject.lha