It's not really a "substitute" per se. It's just another way to hide a
file, along with the actual invisible attribute.
The real problem is that now it's almost impossible to figure out if
something's hidden, or what its type/creator is, etc., unless Apple
provides an explicit API for it. A file could be hidden in one of at
least 3 ways now, and checking all of those ways is a huge pain. You
can't trust the easy stuff any more—like checking the "invisible" bit
to see if a file is invisible—since everything has Unixy "overrides"
that could affect it as well.
On Jan 31, 2005, at 5:14 PM, Mike Kluev wrote:
[The standard rant. Leading dot as a substitute for visibility
attribute? Extension as a substitute for type? World goes down
the tube :-( ]
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