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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 22:01:18 -0400
To: zzapper <david AT tvis DOT co DOT uk>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: How to delete rogue nul files
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At 01:50 PM 7/21/2004, you wrote:
>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??


See documentation for CreateFile().

<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base/deletefile.asp>

You can use '.' in place of '?'.  There's probably a better pointer out
there but that's the best one I can find quickly.



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