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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: A bug in ARP 1.3?
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Date: 9 Dec 89 20:09:25 GMT
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In <14752@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, hunt@boulder.Colorado.EDU (HUNT LEE CAMERON) writes:
>I ran into what I perceived as a bug in ARP 1.3 a few months ago and
>forgot about it until now (when your hard disk gets trashed you forget
>about a lot of things).  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 letter 'a' is a keyword for 'ask'. Try...

del "a"

-larry

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