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In article <787@kontron.UUCP>, cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
> > We've found what looks like a severe bug with the PC-DOS 3.1 DEL command --
> > watch out!
> > 
> > One of the engineers working for me typed:
> > 
> > 	DEL A.O
> >         
> > and was asked "Are you sure (Y/N)?"
> > 
> > Not being thoroughly familiar with PC-DOS, he didn't realize that this
> > prompt is put out when you say "DEL *.*", so he said "y<return>" and
> > the entire directory was cleared out.  A little experiementation found
> > that DEL followed by ANY single filename caused it to assume that we had
> > typed "DEL *.*".
> > 
> 
> But DEL doesn't fail everytime.  Some quirk, perhaps, of the particular 
> order of files in the directory?
> 
Or perhaps the directory itself is messed-up.  I would like to know if
this can be repeated after using CHKDISK.