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From: robin@sabre.uucp (Robin D. Wilson/1000000)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Phantom of the Operating System
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Date: 13 Dec 89 16:08:36 GMT
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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 might try copying all of the files you want to keep to another directory --
(make a special directory just for those files).  And do a recursive remove 
on the directory with the problem.  Then move the special directory back to 
the one that had the problem.

hope that helps...


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