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- From: llucius@millcomm.com (Yambo)
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- Subject: Re: HELP: How to delete a file named _.._
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- Date: 2 Jan 1996 20:57:15 GMT
- Organization: the 9672-R83
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- Hans Guijt (hguijt@inter.NL.net) wrote:
- : Re: HELP: How to delete a file named _.._
- :
- : >Martin Leslie Baker (mlb@rekab.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- : >: When I've had this problem, the file is always empty, and the only way I
- : >: could find to delete it was to got into Workbench and select Window -
- : >: ShowAll in the directory it is in, then select the offending file and use
- : >: Icons - Delete to get rid of it.
- : >:
- : >Another way to do it is use from the shell:
- : >
- : > DIR #?..#? INTER
- :
- : I have been following this threat now for a while, but has it really not
- : occurred to anyone to just open a shell and type
- :
- : DELETE ..
- :
- : ? I mean, that's the way I usually delete files: first type 'DELETE' and
- : then type the name.
- :
- :
- : Hans
- :
- I believe the original poster had stated that he tried this, if I
- remember correctly. 8-)
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