Subj : Re: Beautiful hacks
To   : Ben Collver
From : esc
Date : Sun Oct 22 2023 11:59:35

 BC> I recall this hack.  One simple "hack" that we did on the DOS machines in
 BC> our high school computer lab was use unbreakable space characters in file
 BC> names.  This made the file "invisible" in the directory listing.  We used
 BC> Alt+255 to enter this character at the command prompt.

This reminds me of a silly computer lab hack that I'm proud to have come up with myself back in the day :P

We had computers with Windows 95, IIRC. They were all on a LAN. The filesystem naturally wouldn't let us run command.com or anything, but the web browser (Netscape Navigator) let us put in the telnet application manually. I pointed to command.com. Then, from your browser, just type "telnet://" and instant command prompt :P We played a lot of LAN DOOM back then while the teacher was in the front of the class and couldn't see our screens.

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