Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dino!atanasoff!drues
From: drues@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Michael E. Drues)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Phantom of the Operating System
Message-ID: <2116@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 12 Dec 89 05:17:45 GMT
References: <44410@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Iowa State Univ.
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bear@bu-pub.bu.edu (Blair M. Burtan) writes:

>This may be a previously discovered/cured problem, but I need
>the help and don't have access to very old news.  So, here goes:
>I'm using ARP 1.3 :-) and somehow, I managed to create a file
>on my harddrive called *.  Major oops.  You can't say "delete *"
>because ARP kicks in an deletes the entire directory.  You can't

try the following (with quotation marks)...

	> delete "*."

The quotes should prevent the shell from expanding the `*' which will
match 0 thru any number of characters.  This is the UNIX way of doing
things.  Another way maybe to try:

	> delete ?.

The `?' should match a single character.  Of course a cheating way to
do it is copy (or move) all the other files in that dir to another dir
and then do

	> delete *   

This should delete *everything* in that dir (and since you already
copied the stuff you want somewhere else, that doesn't matter).

Hope this helps,
Mike

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