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Date:	Thu, 27 May 2004 10:42:45 -0400
From:	Volker Quetschke <quetschke AT scytek DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: redirection can create nul files - Was: rm hangs on illegal filename nul
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Just FYI and for the archives:

> Any ideas how to remove the nul files? Really, I don't want to
> format my disk because of this.
You can fool NTFS into not doing reserve-word checking with:

DEL \\.\c:\somedir\nul

You propably have to use the correct quotes, or use cmd.exe,
like I did.

Volker

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