Re: [seul-edu] Hidedn files...

[Ryan Booz <ryanbooz@alumni.psu.edu>]

Thank you very much.   This was enough to drive a man insane at the end of a
week!

Ryan Booz

Jan Hlavacek wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 02:17:23PM -0400, Ryan Booz wrote:
> > I have a really quick question that I can't believe I can't figure out
> > or find in the last 45 minutes of searching.  I'm trying to copy files
> > off a CD onto a server.  There are many 'hidden' files on the disc that
> > are not showing up in the Linux when the disc is mounted.  It's a vfat
> > disc and the files are obviously set hidden through DOS.  How in the
> > world do I list them, let alone copy them?  Thanks.  I'm really
> > stumped....
>
> % man mount
> and search for "unhide"
>
> (You need to pass "unhide" option to the mount command.  You can modify
> /etc/fstab to have this option as default when mounting /cdrom.  The man
> page has an example, at least on my system.)
>
> >
> > Ryan Booz
> > Belleville Mennonite School
> > Tech Coordinator
>
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