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From: fisher@sc2a.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: undeletable file
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.222601.380@sc2a.unige.ch>
Date: 6 Mar 91 20:26:01 GMT
References: <919@keele.keele.ac.uk>
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland
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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???

There has been several answers to this one, including:

del k?hler.mac (best)
del k*hler.mac (warning! this is equivalent to del k*.mac)
del k<148>hler.mac (probably wrong, DOS filenames are uppercase: use <153>)
using almost any file-managment program

If none of these worked, try:

chkdsk /f        (takes care of most file system errors)
attrib -r *.*    (remove read-only flag)
del k?hler.mac

Good luck,

Markus Fischer, Dpt of Anthropology, Geneva CH