A friend of mine was relating a story about another use for attributes. You use attributes as a means of
determining how the operating system interacts with files. Many companies now enforce a policy of setting
hidden files so they remain hidden, even in Windows. Otherwise, users will delete files they
shouldn??™t, which is where this story began. It seems that one user deleted all of the ???extraneous??? files on
her system to make room for more data files, files such as
Command.COM
,
Config.SYS
, and
AutoExec.BAT
. The next morning, the user complained that the system wouldn??™t boot. After restoring
the system, the network administrator warned the user not to delete any more files. The next month,
the user did the same thing all over again. It wasn??™t long before the company had a new ???no delete??? policy
in place, which remains in force today for Windows users.
The File Allocation Table (FAT) file system used with DOS and older versions of Windows, the File Allocation
Table 32-bit (FAT32) file system used with Windows 95 and above, and the Windows NT File System
(NTFS) used with versions of Windows starting with Windows NT, rely on file attributes to identify particular
file conditions.
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