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From: bty00298@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Phantom of the Operating System
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Date: 13 Dec 89 10:39:32 GMT
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Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!bty00298    Dec 12 11:42:00 1989


Do you have a Hardframe controller?  I have the exact same problem.  It seems
that the device driver for the Hardframe puts a file called '*' in the last
partition on a drive.  I'm not sure if it really is the drive, but after
creating a third partition on my Quantum, the '*' moved from the second
dh1: to the third partition dh2:.  I am also using ARP, but it seems highly
unlikely that it would choose to affect only the third partition.

I have found no way to delete the '*' permanently as on every reboot it
reappears.  My recommendation is to just ignore it.

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Brian Yamanaka
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
bty00298@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu