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1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: First Post Attempt
Article: 7372 of alt.hackers Newsgroups: alt.hackers From: ngoodman@soliton.physics.arizona.edu (Noah Goodman) Subject: Re: First Post Attempt Message-ID: 1995Feb11.161347.18746@galileo.physics.arizona.edu Sender: news@galileo.physics.arizona.edu (C-news) Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 16:13:47 GMT Approved: meOfCourse Lines: 12 Status: RO
Well, I guess I'll give a shot to posting too... ObHack: A while back some friends and I were trying to keep a game on the computers in our school's computer lab, but they kept deleting them. After failing at just hiding them in an obscure directory, we decided to make it impossible to remove them. Simple, use a hex edit to rename the delete command in command.com! (To be more subtle we later rewrote attrib so that they couldn't -r our games...) -N
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