From: p DOT west AT mailbox DOT uq DOT edu DOT au ("Peter B. West") Subject: Re: Ineradicable file %_ revisited 10 Aug 1997 05:27:03 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <3.0.2.32.19970810031313.006a1430.cygnus.gnu-win32@dingo.cc.uq.edu.au> References: <3 DOT 0 DOT 2 DOT 32 DOT 19970808105139 DOT 0069ef90 AT dingo DOT cc DOT uq DOT edu DOT au> <3 DOT 0 DOT 2 DOT 32 DOT 19970808105139 DOT 0069ef90 AT dingo DOT cc DOT uq DOT edu DOT au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: zzpwest AT dingo DOT cc DOT uq DOT edu DOT au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.2 b5 (32) Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: <33eb9645.1251683@smtp.netzone.com> Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com At 10:00 pm 8/08/97 GMT, you wrote: >I know this thing is annoying, but since it's 0 bytes, >it's just a directory entry, you can probably just ignore it. > >otherwise have you tried shelling out to dos and >using deltree /y dir_with_bad_file? > >else shell out to dos, and use a diskeditor >and delete it manually. > > Mikey > A thousand thanks, Mikey. 'deltree -y' did the deed, indeed. What a useful little program that is. Shows my ignorance of Win95 & DOS. To Michael Chase: yes, I did try to rename in Explorer - no go. To Michael Hirmke: I ran a full disk check, autocorrect errors, in Win95 with no result. Thanks to everyone who replied. Yours faithfully, Peter __ /__ Peter B. West / p DOT west AT mailbox DOT uq DOT edu DOT au / "Master, to whom shall we go?" - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".