Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!uunet!auspex!guy From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: help removing a file Message-ID: <4034@auspex.auspex.com> Date: 7 Sep 90 17:53:31 GMT References: <1990Sep5.180847.21767@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 14 >My preferred solution to this kind of problems (You'll never guess how >many people take the left arrow key to be the backspace key, and then >you end up with filenames like .prifi^[[D^[[D^[[Dofile): >do an 'od -c .", then try to find the offending entry (easy with SysV, >not so easy with bsd). Not so easy with S5R4, either, if you're using the BSD file system (or, for that matter, with any other S5 system that supports the BSD file system - or, perhaps, other file systems, such as SGI's Extent File System, which may also use a different directory format). Fortunately, in S5R4, you can do "stty echoctl" and have the left-arrow key echo as "^[[D" just as it does in BSD, which should help convince people that it's *not* the backspace key.