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- From: jdow@BIX.com (Joanne Dow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Can't delete files ?!?!? Help!!!
- Date: 10 Jan 1996 00:56:16 GMT
- Organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation
- Message-ID: <4cv2rg$2lk@news2.delphi.com>
- References: <4cd9ve$745@news2.delphi.com> <1084.6578T1315T1277@norconnect.no>
- Reply-To: jdow@BIX.com (Joanne Dow)
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- In article <1084.6578T1315T1277@norconnect.no>,
- peh@norconnect.no (Per Espen Hagen) wrote:
- >Joanne Dow <jdow@BIX.com> wrote:
- >>chryse@mail.telepac.pt (chryse) wrote:
- >>>When I do a delete, it just doesnt go..!!
- >
- >Do you get an error message? If so, what does it say?
- >
- >>>Is the solution the Format ? I use FFS, is AFS better ?
- >
- >AFS has some significant advantages over FFS -- but more than a few people
- >have reported *disastrous* results with AFS. Now, it may be that those
- >people were clueless and did something wrong; I don't know.
- >
- >> If it is simply a file with a wildcard in its name then it becomes fairly easy
- >> to delete it with the "delete #? opt i" command. (The "opt i" stands for "option
- >> interactive".)
- >
- >Oh, my... I hope the poor guy didn't trust you enought to try that
- >suggestion. "delete" doesn't have an "opt i" mode, so "delete #? opt i"
- >would quite simply delete all the files in the directory...
- >
- >You must have been thinking of "dir opt i" (or, alternatively, "dir inter"
- >in OS 1.3+).
-
- I was indeed. Thanks for correcting it. (I plead extenuating circumstances. I
- have recently embarked on an archeological dig through my partner's mother's
- home looking for her will and other important papers. She is something of a
- packrat. 25 hours of work in the bedroom and I have a 5' high 6' square pyramid
- of clothes, 200 gallons of trash, over $40,000 in negotiable securities, every
- plastic shopping bag she ever encountered in her life, coin purses abandoned
- with licenses, credit cards, and money inside, etc etc. I am a lottle (sic)
- crazy lately.) Again thanks for the correction. I did indeed mean "dir opt i".
-
- >--
- >Per Espen Hagen // Senior Scientist 7 Image Processing Group 7 FFI
- >peh@ffi.no 7 http://www.norconnect.no/~peh/ 7 Tel. +47 63807653/22327351
- > \X/4k
- >
-
- {O_O} Joanne Dow, Amiga Exchange Editor on BIX, aka The Wizardess
- jdow@bix.com, jdow@delphi.com, jdow@mci.newscorp.com
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