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From: John Wiersba <John.Wiersba@medstat.com>
To: "'Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)'" <lhall@rfk.com>,
        Thomas.Wolff@icn.siemens.de, benny@crocodial.de,
        "cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com" <cygwin@hotpop.com>
Subject: RE: 3 bugs
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 14:19:54 -0400
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:lhall@rfk.com]
> 
> At 01:59 PM 4/19/00, John Wiersba wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:lhall@rfk.com]
> > > 
> > > At 07:47 AM 4/19/00, Thomas.Wolff@icn.siemens.de wrote:
> > > >: For any file that Explorer can't deal with, try using this 
> > > syntax in
> > > >: cmd.exe:
> > > >: 
> > > >:   del \\?\c:\tmp\xxxxx
> > > >
> > > >Thanks a lot. Finally got rid of those files.
> > > >Works under cygwin bash as well (rm \\\\?\\c:\\temp\\xy.)
> > > 
> > > So doesn't rm //?/c:/temp/xy.
> >
> >Nope.
> 
>  From bash it works, at least for me it does...

OK, I retract my statement.  I tried it again.  It does work, with this
caveat (at least on my machine):  that it probes all my drives and perhaps
the network first, before removing the file.  I believe that is because of
the // syntax.  When I originally tried it, I killed it when I saw it was
probing my floppy drive, so I didn't give it a chance to finish.

-- John


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