Re: [Pharo-users] How to determine if a file is hidden

2016-04-09 Thread Damien Pollet
On 10 April 2016 at 00:13, Robert J Rothwell wrote: > Should I be able to use OSWindows to use getfileinfo from within pharo? No, to run external programs, the package you want is OSSubProcess.

Re: [Pharo-users] How to determine if a file is hidden

2016-04-09 Thread Robert J Rothwell
Thanks Damien, I'm sorry...yes visibility is exactly what I meant, and on a Mac as well. You are right that some invisible things start with a period (on a Mac as well, so that's easy), and others have the invisibility flag set. Should I be able to use OSWindows to use getfileinfo from within

Re: [Pharo-users] How to determine if a file is hidden

2016-04-09 Thread Damien Pollet
Hidden in what sense? On Linux, files whose name start with a period are "hidden" (by convention, many commands ignore them) On OS X, files and directories that are hidden to the Finder have a special attribute in the file system. I don't think there's an accessor for that in Pharo yet, but as a