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From: zzapper <david AT tvis DOT co DOT uk>
Subject: Re: How to delete rogue nul files
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:50:53 +0100
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On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:28:30 -0400,  wrote:

>At 01:32 PM 7/21/2004, you wrote:
>>On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:14:45 +0100,  wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> 
>>>> I recently seem to be leaving nul files around my file system 
>>>> which I cannot delete from Cyg or Win
>>>>  
>>>> Hilfe mich!
>>>
>>
>>>
>>>DEL \\.\c:\somedir\nul
>>>
>>>    cheers, 
>>>      DaveK
>>
>>no luck
>>
>>C:\inetpub\wwwdev\www.planet.com>del nul
>>The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
>
>
>Use the syntax Dave suggested and you'll have better luck.

Larry 
That zeroed the file, but it's still undeletable. But what is that wierd delete syntax??


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