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From: lindwall@beowulf.ucsd.edu (John Lindwall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: A bug in ARP 1.3?
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Date: 10 Dec 89 06:45:05 GMT
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In article <14752@boulder.Colorado.EDU> hunt@spot.Colorado.EDU (HUNT LEE CAMERON) writes:
>Anywho, has anybody been able to make a file or
>directory called 'a' under ARP 1.3 and consequently tried to delete it?
>Using ARP's delete the file won't go away, but ol' AmigaDOS's delete will
>get rid of it.  Has anybody else seen this?
>

The delete command is interpreting your a as the abreviation for the ASK
keyword, instead of as a filename.  The ASK keyword is neat - you could say

delete #? a

and delete will prompt you for each file or directory

"Delete foo?"

Like rm -i on Un*x.  To get help with ARP commands, type CommandName ?
and a short template is printed.  A second ? gets you a second (more
Un*x-like usage message).

To get rid of the file called a, use   delete "a".
John Lindwall

John Lindwall			lindwall@cs.ucsd.edu