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   Message 28,649 of 30,566   
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to lisa   
   Re: Boot Cloned Mint 22.1 in New Compute   
   06 Jun 25 07:28:12   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 05 Jun 2025 20:55:42 +0200, lisa wrote:   
      
   > I'm familiar with windows hidden files and I know Linux also use them.   
      
   Different mechanism. Windows has an attribute to mark any given file/   
   directory as hidden. On Linux (and *nix systems generally), there is no   
   attribute, the convention is not to include files/directories with names   
   beginning with a dot by default in directory listings.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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