The ".hack" Folder

Kaiden · Post by **Kaiden** » Tue Mar 18, 2003 11:03 pm

Hm, I guess this maybe goes hard to the limit of Stupidity...
Forgive me, Sora ^_^'' ( .. O.O Put that things away *touches Katar*)

This goes to Windows users.
Have you ever wondered, or have you been angry about, that you can't make you 'ultra nifty' ".hack" folder (yes...DOThack)?
There's an error message, if you try to write a dot on the begining of a File name.
But there's a way to do it.

Here a little Instruction on how to do that:

Create a New .txt file (right mousebutton - new - textfile) or open Notepad
Enter following line into the file
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```
mkdir ".hack"
```
Goto "File" - "Save As"
Switch the "Save as Type" - menu to "All Files (*.*)"
Enter the Filename you want (it doesn't matter which...you're going to delete the file afterwards) , BUT write .bat (dotbat) after the name. It's a file extension for "batch" files.
Save the File (on the Desktop, you can move the folder which is created there afterwards to your directory of choice)
Close notepad, then Execute (start) you "name.bat" File.
Now there's a ".hack" folder on your dektop. Delete the "name.bat" and use you new folder as you want to.

Note: It can be, that File-Sharing Clients , such as Kazaa, WinMx etc. won't accept this Folder with the dot at the begining (Kazaa for sure, the only one I saw that with), in any other cases, it doesn't matter. ( Ãf you find errors, caused by this, please tell me/us - thx)

Pipian · Post by **Pipian** » Tue Mar 18, 2003 11:54 pm

Linux can do .hack easily! On the other hand, it's a hidden folder that won't appear when you ls -lt... *sigh*

Kaiden · Post by **Kaiden** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 12:06 am

I wasn't sure about, If Linux can Handle that, because I didn't use It long enough to tell. So I decided not to say anythÃng about Linux.
If I knew, I would have written it too ^^

MithrilKatanaX · Post by **MithrilKatanaX** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 4:57 am

if i had the space i make a .hack (or even a .hack// folder if possible) to keep my d/led fansubs in, but i had to burn them to cd and delete them today cause i was down to 192MB left on my HDD

Kaiden · Post by **Kaiden** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 8:09 am

You can't make a ".hack//Sign" folder, because the slashes divide into a new Directory.
For example "C:\Windows\System32" ... the slashes draw the lines between. So If you create a folder ".hack//Sign" , there will be One folder named ".hack" , and in this there will be another one - "Sign"

Sora · Post by **Sora** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 12:24 pm

.......

*snickers*

This is one of the oddest, yet slightly on-topic threads I've ever seen o.O;;;

Carry on *laughs*

MithrilKatanaX · Post by **MithrilKatanaX** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 9:29 pm

i dont want a .hack//SIGN folder... i just want a .hack// folder... and \ signifies a new directory or subfolder not /... / is use to separate parts of a web address...

Kaiden · Post by **Kaiden** » Thu Mar 20, 2003 8:26 am

sora

Mithrilkatana , it doesn't matter which slash it is. Try it out. (a web adress is the same as a local adress.. only the Http:// indicates)

but okay

(I don't mean to offend anyone)

MithrilKatanaX · Post by **MithrilKatanaX** » Thu Mar 20, 2003 7:10 pm

it dosent really matter to me, i was just in one of those mischevious argumentive moods at the time i wrote that cause i had just gotten home from school and a debate/discussion... so basically i wasa just trying to amuse myself