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From: fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Phantom of the Operating System
Message-ID: <245@estinc.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 89 19:01:33 GMT
References: <44410@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish)
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Organization: Enhanced Software Technologies, Inc.
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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

Have you tried sticking your original workbench disk in df1: and typing

	df1:c/delete *

Works for me...

-Fred
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