Msdos hidden files viewable from linux?

[mikebw at bilow.bilow.uu.ids.net (Mike Bilow)]

Dale R Worley wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

 DRW> Perhaps the names of files that have special bits should get 
 DRW> prefixed by '.' followed by a character that encodes the 
 DRW> special bits. 

I have an idea: if hidden files are prefixed with '.', then system files might
as well be prefixed with '..' -- although files which are both hidden and
system might have to use '...' to be unambiguous, and any future flags would
have to use a number of dots relatively prime to all previously defined numbers
of dots...
 
-- Mike