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From: p DOT west AT mailbox DOT uq DOT edu DOT au ("Peter B. West")
Subject: Re: Ineradicable file %_ revisited
10 Aug 1997 05:27:03 -0700 :
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At 10:00 pm 8/08/97 GMT, you wrote:
>I know this thing is annoying, but since it's 0 bytes,
>it's just a directory entry, you can probably just ignore it.
>
>otherwise have you tried shelling out to dos and
>using deltree /y dir_with_bad_file?
>
>else shell out to dos, and use a diskeditor
>and delete it manually.
>
>         Mikey
>

A thousand thanks, Mikey.  'deltree -y' did the deed, indeed.  What a
useful little program that is.  Shows my ignorance of Win95 & DOS.

To Michael Chase: yes, I did try to rename in Explorer - no go.

To Michael Hirmke:  I ran a full disk check, autocorrect errors, in Win95
with no result.

Thanks to everyone who replied.

Yours faithfully,
Peter
 __ /__   Peter B. West
   /     p DOT west AT mailbox DOT uq DOT edu DOT au
  /    "Master, to whom shall we go?"
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