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From: petcher@ds1.scri.fsu.edu (Don Petcher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: A folder that contains itself
Keywords: directory recursion
Message-ID: <106@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
Date: 16 Jun 90 20:34:50 GMT
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In article <4846@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de> roeder@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de (Edgar Roeder) writes:
>In article <85@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>, petcher@sun13.scri.fsu.edu (Don Petcher) writes:
>> Shades of Russell's paradox, I have created a folder that contains itself!
>> 
>> something with it, I get the message "You cannot create or access a 
>> directory or folder this far down the directory path" 
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>> can't do anything with it.  Any ideas how to delete it cleanly?  
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>I have sometimes got thos folders without a name, or even worse two entries
>named ".." in the same directory. With Simon Poole's dlii_024.prg i was able
>to change the name of those no-names to something reasonable. Just go into
>the files menu, select another file in the folder containing the no-name folder.
>Goto the previous or next entry until you get to the problematic entry. Now
>you can edit its name.
>After this you should be able to delete the folder from the desktop (maybe
>after a warmstart).
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Yup, it worked!  Thanks.                                
                                
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Don Petcher
Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306

Petcher@vsdnp.scri.fsu.edu
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