Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!lethe!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!pacbell.com!ames!skipper!elxsi!maine From: maine@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov (Richard Maine) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Problem with del... Message-ID: Date: 15 Dec 90 02:50:02 GMT References: <4043@uniol.UUCP> <28836@usc> Sender: news@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Dryden, Edwards, Cal. Lines: 33 In-reply-to: ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu's message of 15 Dec 90 00:33:16 GMT On 15 Dec 90 00:33:16 GMT, ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) said: Ajay> Nntp-Posting-Host: alhena.usc.edu Ajay> In article otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes: >In article <4043@uniol.UUCP> Kai.Buerhoop@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Kai Buerhoop) writes: > I got a problem with the 'del'-command. > I've got a certain file, which I can normally list with 'dir', > but which, if I want to rename it, copy it or delete it cannot be > modified. DOS says: "Cannot find file" Ajay> How about a simple explanation. How about a simpler one. I bet you have a file that contains non-printable characters (or perhaps blanks, I forget whether they can mess up messy dos worse than it usually is) in the file name. It may appear like dir is showing you the file name, but it doesn't always tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Try Norton, PC Tools or any of the other tools that will let you delete (or rename) the file by point-and-shoot instead of by typing its name on the command line. They usually work fine on such names and avoid the difficulty of getting weird characters past the command line parsing. Ajay> Motto of the day: Microsoft sucks! You didn't see me say that. But you didn't hear me contradict it either. :-) -- Richard Maine maine@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov [130.134.64.6]