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! >
