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From: Florian Schulze <florian DOT proff DOT schulze AT gmx DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Can't delete EXE files created by DJGPP
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 14:03:56 +0100
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On 31 Dec 2003 07:53:40 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>> 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.

ntvdm.exe is not running. I don't think it can leave the file open, 
because a reboot doesn't help, only the secure mode console. I tried two 
tools from sysinternals (handle and Process Explorer), but the files 
aren't open in any process. I think the windows error message is 
misleading. When I try to rm the files, I get "rm: cannot unlink 
`damp.exe': Operation not permitted (EPERM)".

I check the dates of the binarys and only cat and grep (and some other 
file utilitys) are dated before december 2000. Which package could that 
be? fileutils?

I'm pretty sure I got updated packages for win2k, but I will try a fresh 
install when I have access to a bigger internet pipe.

Regards,
Florian Schulze