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[Martin Vorlaender]

Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
>> JF Mezei<jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca>  wrote:
>>> Once you're done, rename the ZIP.EXE to "Obama.JPG" and they won't
>>> suspect anything. If you need it again, just rename it back to zip.exe.
>>> (actually, I am not even sure you need to do that).
>>
>> I believe I remember renaming some .DIR to other extensions so
>> suspicious people wouldn't go looking at them.   I suppose if you
>> look right they are even more suspicious.  For those, I believe
>> I did have to rename them to use them.
>
> Yes, I think that is correct. The directory lookup routines expect
> subdirectories to be called something.DIR.

They even need to be named something.DIR;1 or they won't be found.

cu,
   Martin
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