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From: joe@cbmvax.UUCP (Joe O'Hara - PA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Phantom of the Operating System
Message-ID: <8947@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 89 14:31:12 GMT
References: <44410@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: joe@cbmvax.UUCP (Joe O'Hara - PA)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <44410@bu-cs.BU.EDU> 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
>say "delete * ask" because even though * comes up as a choice, it
>doesn't get deleted.  And when I used Quarterback to back up the
>drive, I eliminated * from the list but when I restored the drive,
>* had returned to haunt me.  Anyone else have this problem?
>Anyone have a solution?


You can use the "?" wildcard for this: delete ?

Of course, make sure you have no other single-character filenames in the
directory.
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