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From: tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu (Carl Schelin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: undeletable file
Message-ID: <1991Mar5.141348.4221@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
Date: 5 Mar 91 14:13:48 GMT
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In article <919@keele.keele.ac.uk>, csw76@seq1.keele.ac.uk (J.C. Kohler) says:
>
>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 
>xt-pro but that didn't work either.
>
>Does anybody has an idea how i can get rid of this file???
>

You can:

del k?hler.mac
del k*.mac
del k<alt+148>hler.mac
del *.mac
del *.*

This assumes you don't have a non-printable character after the 'r'. If so,
you may have to do this:

del k?hler*.mac

Carl Schelin
tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu