Recursive directory!?

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From: Steven Pemberton
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1987 17:15

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I've just been trying to backup my hard-disk (with turtle), and it
kept crashing on the same directory. After some investigation, I
discovered that the offending directory includes another directory
*with no name*, that itself only includes another such nameless
directory. That directory itself contains another nameless directory,
and so on, and so on, and so on.

The question is, does anybody know how to get rid of such a directory?
It's only visible from the desk-top; gulam 'ls' ignores it.  If I try
to drag it to the trash, I get an alert with the message: "An item
with this name already exists in the directory, or this item is set to
Read-only status." While it's there I can't back it up, I can't copy
it anywhere (the desk-top goes into an infinite loop creating
directories), I can't do anything with it. HELP!

Steven Pemberton, CWI, Amsterdam; steven@cwi.nl

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From: steven@cwi.nl (Steven Pemberton)
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Subject: Recursive directory!?
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Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 13:15:46 EDT
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