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- From: dmeyer@tiac.net (David Meyer)
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- Subject: Re: HELP: How to delete a file named ".."
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- Date: 7 Jan 1996 01:50:48 GMT
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- Tapio Heiskanen (tj@iki.fi) wrote:
- : In article <19084108@cacios.locebbs.chnet.ch> "Stefano Cairoli" <Cacio@cacios.locebbs.chnet.ch> 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???
- :
- : You probably have UnixDirs or some other commodity to enable . and .. to
- : work as on a unix system
- :
- : If you've got UnixDirs use exchange to disable at the time you want to
- : delete your file.
- :
-
- If you have a utility that emulates UNIX directory structure,
- don't even THINK about deleting the . or .. "files". These are the
- representations of the directories "above" the one you are looking at. If
- you CD to WORK:WP then you will have a . (WORK:) and a .. (WP/) in your
- directory structure. (the text in parentheses will not show up)
-