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- From: kks@kiuru.cs.tut.fi (Saarela Kimmo)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Re: HELP: How to delete a file named ".."
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Date: 04 Jan 1996 12:45:30 +0200
- Organization: Tampere University of Technology (CS)
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- In-reply-to: wblock@rapidnet.com's message of 2 Jan 1996 17:39:06 GMT
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- In article <4cbqjq$64u@rapidnet.com> wblock@rapidnet.com (Warren Block) writes:
-
- >I don't know how, but I have on my hard disk a file that is named ".."
- >The problem is that it seems that it's impossible to delete!! I've tried
- >with the SHELL, with Directory Opus 4, DOpus 5 and the
- >Workbench.. NOTHING!!
-
- >How can I delete this damned file from my hard disk???
-
- I use Gnu-Emacs's dired for deleting funny named files. I suppose you
- really have a file called .. and it is not what it usually stands for ;-)
-
- Regards,
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