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From: hamilton@intersil.uucp (Fred Hamilton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Phantom of the Operating System
Message-ID: <353@intersil.uucp>
Date: 12 Dec 89 07:54:17 GMT
References: <44410@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
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Organization: Harris Semiconductor, Santa Clara CA
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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?

Try "delete ?", and make sure there are no there 1 character filenames in
that directory.

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