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From: xcarey@cucstud.UUCP (Christian Carey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: undeletable file
Summary: an answer
Message-ID: <2288@cucstud.UUCP>
Date: 5 Mar 91 15:54:14 GMT
References: <919@keele.keele.ac.uk>
Organization: Columbia Union College; Takoma Park, MD 20912
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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???

Try the following:

DEL K*HLER.MAC

(instead of *, hold down the Alt key and type 1 4 8 on the keypad; this will
generate the o with diaeresis.  Any character but 0 can be entered in this method.)

Have fun,

Crispy
-- 
"It is a question of cubic capacity; a man with so large a brain must have
something inside it."--Sherlock Holmes, _The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle_

Christian Carey (size 8 hat (USA))     uunet!cucstud!xcarey