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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Thanks ASDG
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Date: 12 Jan 90 17:50:38 GMT
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In <8912172023.AA11725@jade.berkeley.edu>, GORRIEDE@UREGINA1.BITNET (Dennis Robert Gorrie) writes:
>I just got the upgrade notice for CygnusED from ASDG.  Not a bad xmas present.
>In the meantime, can anyone tell me how to get  rid of these  CygnusEdTempA.576
>files that were left on my hard disk when I crashed the computer while editing
>something?  I try to delete them but I always get a file not found error,
>no matter what program I try to use to delete them.  I was going to destroy the
>dir blocks with SECTORAMA but I don't think it works the same on FFS.
>
>Is there anything short of a DOS format to get these files from the 'un-dead'
>off my hard disk?

Did you try 'delete cygnusedtemp#?' or check the protection bits?
I had a file or two left like that after a crash, and got rid of them fairly
easily.  Can't remember how though.

-larry

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