[Pythonmac-SIG] making invisibles seen in "finder"

[Zachery Bir]

On Friday, Oct 18, 2002, at 12:52 US/Eastern, kevin parks wrote:

>> Note that the /usr/... files cannot be seen
>> from Finder (at least by default), only from the unix prompt.
>
> Sorry for the non-python question here, but i wonder, on NeXTStep you 
> could click a little button to turn on what i think they called 
> "advanced" views or something so that you could see all your files, 
> even invisible ones, in the finder.

Would be nice to have this back.

> Is there a way to switch this on on OS X? I can't find it anywhere.... 
> I ask as it was brought up here.

No, but you can edit the .hidden file (in Terminal) to make those 
directories available (or hide others). Look in /.hidden

Zac