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- From: Jonathan Waland <walaj@abstruse.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: HELP: How to delete a file named _.._
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- Date: Thu, 4 Jan 96 18:11:32 GMT
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- Hans Guijt (hguijt@inter.NL.net) wrote:
- : >Another way to do it is use from the shell:
- : >
- : > DIR #?..#? INTER
- :
- : I have been following this thread 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
- :
-
- Something that springs to mind... Are you running a patch that gives
- UNIX style directorys (.. . and / )? This will stop you deleting
- .. if it is a real file, and will show .. using some directory listers.
-
- jo
-