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From: salmi@finsun.csc.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: undeletable file
Message-ID: <1991Mar5.100452.2724@nic.funet.fi>
Date: 5 Mar 91 10:04:52 GMT
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In article <919@keele.keele.ac.uk> 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???
:

Use Norton's diskdoctor or a similar utility.  Then remove.  Yours
is probably a case of an error in the fat (if not a simple case of a
read-only file)

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