From: mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com ("Michael A. Chase")
Subject: Re: Ineradicable file %_ revisited
9 Aug 1997 10:31:49 -0700
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If all else fails, move all other files and directories out of the parent
directory and then delete the parent in Explorer.  If that doesn't work,
try running disk diagnostics from your favorite utility package and see
if it catches the invalid file name.

BTW, does this mean you couldn't rename the file in Explorer?

Mac :})

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter B. West <p DOT west AT mailbox DOT uq DOT edu DOT au>
To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Friday, August 08, 1997 11:35
Subject: Ineradicable file %_ revisited



>Fellow mailing list masochists,
>
>Thanks for all of the suggestions regarding file %_, which will not go
>away.  I fear some more information is required.
>
>Bare
>  ls
>in the containing directory yields:
>ls: %_: No such file or directory
>
>If there are other files in the directory, the preceding message is
output
>first, followed by the listing of the "real" files.
>
>Similarly, rm -i * yields
>rm: %_: No such file or directory
>
>Reverting to Explorer, and examining properties of %_ gives:
>
>Size 0 bytes (0 bytes)
>MS-DOS name:
>  Created   unknown
>  Modified  unknown
>  Accessed  unknown
>
>Attempting to delete the little limpet gives:
>Cannot delete %_: Cannot find the specified file  etc..
>
>I mention this because of the possibility that this anomaly is GNU
created.
> This is not necessarily the case, of course.
>
>All (well-meaning) suggestions gratefully accepted.
>
>Yours faithfully,
>Peter
> __ /__   Peter B. West
>   /     p DOT west AT mailbox DOT uq DOT edu DOT au
>  /    "Master, to whom shall we go?"
>-
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