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From:	Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Can't delete EXE files created by DJGPP
Date:	Tue, 30 Dec 2003 21:17:55 CST
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> I got a weird problem. I can't delete or rename any exe files generated 
> with DJGPP. 

This sounds like NTVDM is not closing the file handle.  To see if this
is the problem look for NTVDM.EXE in the task manager list and stop
the process (you may have one for each command window which has run
a DOS image).  If you can then delete the file after stoping NTVDM, it's 
a matter of figuring out what has gone wrong with NTVDM.  I found that if 
you have problems killing NTVDM will fix lots of problems (using a command 
line WIN32 kill utility is helpful).

> I'm using Windows 2000 Professional with DJGPP 2.03 
> (patchlevel 1, I think that's the fixed one). 

Please check that all binaries in your djgpp/bin directory are dated
December 2000 or later.

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