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From: priest@cs.odu.edu (Travis L Priest)
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Subject: remove this file...
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Date: 4 Jun 91 23:30:32 GMT
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hopefully someone finds this challenging:

I recently had a file in my dirctory that was incidentally created by
a program I ran.  `ls` reported it's name as "N???BZ? " and upon
trying to remove it, it logged me out.  (I used file completion in
tcsh to expand it's name, and I also used the wildcard N*).  Using
dired mode in emacs I was able to remove it with no problem, and I did
notice that the filename consisted of a series of control codes.

My question is: How do you remove a file whose name contains the
"logout" control sequence using standard commands available to sh,
csh, or tcsh (useful on a system that does not have emacs)?  I do not
know how to create the file again so that I can try to solve this
problem, so if anyone knows how to do that, too, I would like to hear
about it.

--Travis--
Consultant
ODU System's Group