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From: goodwinm@prism.cs.orst.edu (Michael Goodwin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Undeleteable files
Keywords: amiga files deleteable
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Date: 17 May 91 05:08:22 GMT
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In article <1444@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
>Hi there
>
>I recently had my hard drive crash on me in the middle of running a disk
>test program.... consequently my HD is littered with files such as:
>
>" QA DiskSpeed --"
> ^
> |
> +--------------- note the space.
>
>I tried to delete them, but csh (version 5.13) won't recognize them, and 
>diskmaster claims to delete them, but doesn't!
>
>Any ideas???  The problem is NOT protection bits.
>

Try delete " QA DiskSpeed..." from the CLI with quotes around the name.  If
that doesn't work, then try it with a star in front of the space, ie. 
delete * QA DiskSpeed ... there are usually ways to delete files like this.

>
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