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Article #2903Re: HELP: can't get rid of a directory called "LPT1"
From: fred j mccall 575-3539
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:33
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:33
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In <1103@wspcrd.PeachtreeCityGA.ncr.com> jrs@wspcrd.PeachtreeCityGA.ncr.com (Jim Shockey) writes: >Hi. I had a directory named "RPT1" which I erased the other day. While I >attempt to recover it using Norton Utilities I gave it a wrong name -- "LPT1" >and now I can't do anything about it. All I want to do is to erase it. >Please help me. Please, please, please... Why not just go back into Norton Utilities and do it, if it won't work any other way (and it won't -- unless you do something to tell DOS to not automatically treat a 'file name' of LPT1 as the printer port; there is a setting to do this, but I don't recall what it is)? -- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ukma!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!csc.ti.com!tilde.csc.ti.com!mksol!mccall From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) Subject: Re: HELP: can't get rid of a directory called "LPT1" Message-ID: <1992Nov17.173352.22327@mksol.dseg.ti.com> Organization: Texas Instruments Inc References: <1103@wspcrd.PeachtreeCityGA.ncr.com> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:33:52 GMT Lines: 17