In article <jollyroger-2F85A4.09054325072008@news.individual.net>, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> > > So I supposed through those upgrades, you missed some man page updates. > > > I've learned that "upgrade" is something to be avoided with Mac OS X... > > > > It's interesting, though, that you've got it on a 10.4 machine while a > > machine I have that was delivered with 10.4 and then upgraded to Leopard > > doesn't have that version of the page. > > Maybe my memory is faulty there. I'm sure I remember using "chflags > hidden" on 10.4 machines, but I could be mistaken about the man page on > 10.4. > > > What's the date at the bottom of the chflags man page on your machine(s)? > > May 14, 2005
An article on Daring Fireball claims that the first version of OS X to include a chflags that recognizes the hidden flag was 10.5, and that it only works on HFS+ volumes (although I'd imagine legacy HFS as well). Looking around a bit, it looks like the hidden flag may be an Apple addition, which makes a certain amount of sense.
FWIW, on both of my machines the man page is from May, 1995. Despite the outdated man page, the hidden flag is recognized by the command on my MacBook (10.5) but not my G5 (10.4).
Edifying. Thank you.
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