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From: georgf@polari.UUCP (George Forsman)
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Subject: Re: Erasing file with space in filename.
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Date: 9 May 90 05:44:26 GMT
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In article <2646D02E.26027@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm) writes:
>I remember reading some time ago in this newsgroup, I think, about how to 
>erase a file with a name like
>		abcde gh
>Never thought I would have to do it, but now I have a file like that on my
>hard disk and DOS refuses to erase it.  Help!!   Carl Riehm.
>
Easy.  >DEL abcde?gh   (after careful checking to see that no OTHER files
match that pattern :)

>P.S. And please don't ask me how it got there!

Any program that makes use of FCBs is capable of doing this. (I think). I
believe that BASIC allows spaces in filenames. (Which, of course, makes it
another option for erasing the file...)


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