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	"'Richard Dawe'" <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Subject:	Silly me (was Re: Odd 'rm' behaviour (WinXP))
Date:	Fri, 28 Dec 2001 17:40:04 +0100
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> Could it be that XP introduced some new feature for DOS deletions?

I doubt it.  I just tried 4DOS; its 'del' is definitely NOT Win32
based, and it works as expected.  So far, only 'rm' seems to be
affected.
In fact, I just ran a 2.03-based emacs, and did

C-x d (-> dired)
M-! touch foo (-> creates 'foo')
g (update display -> 'foo' shown)
d (on 'foo', to mark for deletion)
x (to delete the file)
g (to refresh display)

No 'deleted' folder was created.

This made me VERY suspicious.  So I ran 'which rm'. *duh* As it
turns out, I was using 'rm' from Visual Studio.NET (probably
provided for makefile compatibility).  This needs a '-x' parameter
to inhibit the 'deleted' folder.
*Sigh* Why they think it's a good idea to make rm behave like that
at all, I don't know.

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