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From: tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu (Carl Schelin)
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Subject: Re: Problem with del...
Message-ID: <1990Dec18.141132.6925@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
Date: 18 Dec 90 14:11:32 GMT
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In article <MAINE.90Dec14185002@altair.dfrf.nasa.gov>, maine@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov (Richard Maine) says:
>On 15 Dec 90 00:33:16 GMT, ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) said:
>> In article <OTTO.90Dec14165710@tukki.jyu.fi> 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"
>>
>>   [ removal of "simple" solution]
>
>  [removal of "simpler" solution]

Jeeze, what a bunch of "simple" solutions! :)

Filename: File  .nam

Dir works fine, but can't delete it.

Try: del file????.nam

bye-bye file.... 

assuming that you don't have any other files called File????.nam. (If so, rename them
first!)

Carl Schelin
tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu