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.
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
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