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From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Problem with del...
Keywords: del
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Date: 16 Dec 90 05:21:30 GMT
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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"
> 
> Anyone an idea?

Yeah, a pretty good one. I'll bet you have a filename with a
non-printing character in it. Is the filename 7 characters or less? That
will be a clue.

The way to delete it is to use wildcards to match it. In fact (in an
extreme case), you might have to move all other files out of the
directory, and then 'del *.*' to rid yourself of it.

To rename it would be a bit trickier... perhaps a shell like PCTools, or
the filename completion of 4dos would be the ticket.

Hope this helps.
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