From: dpl@aber.ac.uk (David Philip Langstaff)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: Changing from hidden to UNHIDDEN
Date: 12 Jan 93 12:54:04 GMT
Organization: University of Wales, Aberystwyth

In comp.lang.pascal usgcjsx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Craig_J_Stadler) asks:
>How does one go about changing a file attribute
>from hidden to unhidden using SetFAttr ?
>
> [snippage...]

and then gives us this taste of his wit and wisdom.....

>
>
>-- 
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>             DO not attempt to adjust your television set...
>                    We are controlling transmission
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>/-   --  |\  | |  |  --- | |  |\   -\  Morbid Visions/Beneath The Remains
>\   |-   |/  | |  |   |  | |  |/  |_|  Bestial Devastation/ARISE
>_/  |--  |    -   \_  |   -   |\  | |  Schizophrenia
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Atari 2600,5200,7800   Vectrex    ColecoVision   Intellivsion    Channel F
>Emerson Fairchild      Odyssey    Odyssey 2  
>
>                     I BUY USED/NEW CARTS/SYSTEMS!!! 
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                    ATTENTION!!  WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE :
>
>Stretch ARMSTRONG  Stretch MONSTER        STP Racers            CreepyCrawlers
>Sit-N-Spin         Inch Worm              6 Million Dollar Man  Lincoln Logs
>Silly Putty        Rock Em Sock Em Robots Snow Bird Ice Machine Tinker Toys
>Digger The Dog     Mouse Trap             Big Wheel             Green Machine
>Weeble Wobbles
>                 usgcjsx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (404) 651-4542
>                      DAMN That Was a LONG .signature!!
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Very,very nasty I'm afraid. After the normal quoting and BUAF stuff, Craig
helpfully lists the contents of his computer collection and then does a 
quick commercial break listing some games he'd like to get hold of.

Unfortunately he missed off the new Virtual Reality masterpiece from 
BigTrendo, Get-A-Life (tm). In this you take the part of Craig Stadler,
a teenage computer nerd. You have to guide Craig out of his bedroom, past
the deadly  'things-under-the-bed' and down the stairs, all the time avoiding
the deadly gaze of the computer screens which will freeze you if you look at
them. If you succeed on this level, you then have to face the horror of
dinner with the family, where you have to try and have a 'conversation' with
real humans. The climactic end game is nearly impossible, as you have to leave
the house, breathe fresh air and even talk to a 'girl'. This games was rated
as 'nearly impossible' in the respected 'Console Cretins' magazine and caused
the reviewer from 'Manual Manipulation Monthly' to change his whole career.

Maybe we should send him a copy....



...and I didn't even mention the dash-attacks and phone number...


        DAMN That Was a LONG piss-take



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