In article <280720080947538089%leave@me.alone>, Curmudgeon <leave@me.alone> wrote:
> In article <tomstiller-632F3D.18551027072008@news.verizon.net>, Tom > Stiller <tomstiller@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > In article <270720081709030959%leave@me.alone>, > > Curmudgeon <leave@me.alone> wrote: > > > > > In article <jollyroger-CDF140.10375325072008@news.individual.net>, > > > Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote: > > > > > > > In article <1iknzpi.pbudqouth9icN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz>, > > > > dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote: > > > > > > > > > Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > In article <uce-F79936.07363025072008@newsclstr02.news.prodigy.com>, > > > > > > Gregory Weston <uce@splook.com> wrote: > > > > > > [much discussion of how tools and man pages are updated deleted...] > > > > > > OP here. I have been following this thread hoping that it would shed > > > some light on whether my issue with visible etc, tmp, and var aliases > > > (or links as they might more accurately be described) can be rendered > > > invisible again. It appears that they cannot, and I will simply have > > > to live with their annoying persistence. It's hard for me to believe > > > that's really true, but nobody has yet suggested a remedy that works. > > > > > > By the way, my thanks to whomever suggested Cocktail, but all it does > > > is toggle the visibility of otherwise invisible files. It hasn't any > > > impact on the three "folders" I'm trying to invisibilize. The system > > > won't allow me to rename them .etc, .tmp, and .var so I seem to SOL. > > > > > > Any other ideas? Voodoo, maybe? There's got to be a way to do this! > > > > > > > What does the command: > > ls -lO / > > produce? > > Here 'tis: > > [adsl-70-131-83-28:~] steve% ls -lo / > total 340650 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 steve staff - 249856 Jul 11 20:18 AppleShare PDS
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> > Confession: Despite fifteen years at Bell Labs, I am not at all UNIX > conversant, so the above doesn't mean as much to me as it might. I'll > be very happy to accept any guidance you can provide. Thanks.
Right! the command is: ls -lO / note the upper case "O" (size *does* matter) ;-)
