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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT elta DOT co DOT il>
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In-reply-to: <3ff23fe3.sandmann@clio.rice.edu> (message from Charles Sandmann
	on Tue, 30 Dec 2003 21:17:55 CST)
Subject: Re: Can't delete EXE files created by DJGPP
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> From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 21:17:55 CST
> 
> This sounds like NTVDM is not closing the file handle.  To see if this
> is the problem look for NTVDM.EXE in the task manager list and stop
> the process (you may have one for each command window which has run
> a DOS image).  If you can then delete the file after stoping NTVDM, it's 
> a matter of figuring out what has gone wrong with NTVDM.  I found that if 
> you have problems killing NTVDM will fix lots of problems (using a command 
> line WIN32 kill utility is helpful).

There are also some fine utilities floating around that will show you
the list of files open by each running process.  Using one of them
could shed some light on this problem.