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From: Richard Maine
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 1990 02:50

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On 15 Dec 90 00:33:16 GMT, ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) said:
Ajay> Nntp-Posting-Host: alhena.usc.edu

Ajay> In article <OTTO.90Dec14165710@tukki.jyu.fi> otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes:
>In article <4043@uniol.UUCP> Kai.Buerhoop@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Kai Buerhoop) writes:
>   I got a problem with the 'del'-command.
>   I've got a certain file, which I can normally list with 'dir',
>   but which, if I want to rename it, copy it or delete it cannot be
>   modified.  DOS says: "Cannot find file"

Ajay> How about a simple explanation.

How about a simpler one.  I bet you have a file that contains
non-printable characters (or perhaps blanks, I forget whether they
can mess up messy dos worse than it usually is) in the file name.
It may appear like dir is showing you the file name, but it doesn't
always tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Try Norton, PC Tools or any of the other tools that will let you
delete (or rename) the file by point-and-shoot instead of by typing
its name on the command line.  They usually work fine on such names
and avoid the difficulty of getting weird characters past the
command line parsing.

Ajay> Motto of the day: Microsoft sucks!

You didn't see me say that.  But you didn't hear me contradict
it either.  :-)

--

Richard Maine
maine@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov [130.134.64.6]

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