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From: dwills AT earthling DOT net (Dean C Wills)
Subject: Re: rm -R reports "circular reference"
17 Mar 1998 17:21:12 -0800 :
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I would run scandisk to make sure it is not a real error first. You might
really have a circular reference. See if deltree(win95 command) deletes the
directory.

-----Original Message-----
From: Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com>
To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Sunday, March 15, 1998 4:47 PM
Subject: rm -R reports "circular reference"


>Hi,
>
>I encountered an error while trying to "rm -R" a directory tree.  rm
>reports "circular reference" in the directory structure.
>
>I seem to remember seeing such errors being discussed, but couldn't find
>the details of when such error would occur.
>
>BTW.  The directory tree I tried to delete was the one created by "MS
>Media Manager" from the MS Visual Studio 97 Enterprise Edition.
>
>--
>Weiqi Gao
>weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com
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