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In article <4aotei$33s@babylon5.babcom.com>,
The Renaissance Man <alaric@babylon5.babcom.com> wrote:
>Quoth bckdrmn@netcom.com (Dave Gotwisner):
>] For some reason some process is creating files called "com4" in various
>] places on our Netware server.  Since COM4 is reserved by dos as a device,
>] we cannot delete the files (or the directories that they are in).
>] 
>] What I would like to know, is how to get rid of these files, so we can
>] clean up our disk.
>
>
>Try:
>
>	del com?
>
>or, if there's nothing else in the affected directories that would be hit 
>by this,
>
>	del com*
>
>These are also good ways to delete files whose names contain illegal 
>characters or spaces.

The reason I originally posted the request is that DOS gets in the way (COM4
is reserved and cannot be a filename), so DOS commands won't work.  The
suggestion which I was given was to use "filer" which is a netware command.
This worked fine.  It also allowed me to delete some other bogus files which
showed up in the directory but dos claimed they "didn't exist" when I tried
to delete them.
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