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From: n8541751@unicorn.cc.wwu.edu (Where there is darkness, light)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: undeletable file
Message-ID: <1991Mar5.094222.6659@unicorn.cc.wwu.edu>
Date: 5 Mar 91 09:42:22 GMT
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csw76@seq1.keele.ac.uk (J.C. Kohler) writes:

>I have a file in a subdirectory which I can't delete. The file is called 
>k*hler.mac and was once generated by wp 4.2. The * stands for an o with dots 
>on it, ascii 148. I can't delete this file under ms-dos. I've tried it also
>with xt-pro but that didn't work either.

>Does anybody has an idea how i can get rid of this file???

I deleted a file like this once with PC TOOLS.  I think I renamed it first, 
and then deleted it.

A friend of mine had another file that even PC TOOLS wouldn't erase or rename,
but we finally eliminated it by using BASIC language, believe
it or not.  It seems the KILL command, which is how you delete a file in 
BASIC, will accept wierd filenames that the DOS DELETE command will not.  It
must work differently than other methods of erasing files.  We just used
plain BASIC, not BASICA.

Kris.
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