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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Removing garbage files
Message-ID: <13043@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 3 Jun 90 21:12:05 GMT
References: <156@TWG.UUCP> <610@atcmpe.atcmp.nl>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <610@atcmpe.atcmp.nl> ronald@atcmp.nl (Ronald Pikkert) writes:
>Your shell probably strips the high order bit which causes rm to be unable
>to delete these files.

But that doesn't explain why "rm -r" would fail to remove them.