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From: zzapper <david AT tvis DOT co DOT uk>
Subject:  Re: rm problem: Directory not empty
Date:  Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:16:00 +0100
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:03:30 +0100,  wrote:

Off-thread?
Deleting undeletable Nul files

There is a form of MSDOS DEL where you must enter the full path

DEL \\.\c:\somedir\nul 

or use delinvfile.exe (google for this utility)



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