Some articles on file, files, hidden file:
... The FAT file system itself is not designed for supporting Alternate Data Streams (ADS), but some operating systems that heavily depend on them have devised various methods for handling them in ... either store the additional information in extra files and directories (Mac OS), or give new semantics to previously unused fields of the FAT on-disk data structures (OS/2 ... Mac OS using PC Exchange stores its various dates, file attributes and long filenames in a hidden file called "FINDER.DAT", and resource forks (a common Mac OS ADS) in ...
Famous quotes containing the words file and/or hidden:
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—Barbara Howar (b. 1934)
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—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)