Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!cca!ima!haddock!johna From: johna@haddock.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: Symbolic link under MS-DOS ??!!?? Message-ID: <322@haddock.UUCP> Date: Fri, 25-Jan-85 23:56:30 EST Article-I.D.: haddock.322 Posted: Fri Jan 25 23:56:30 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 28-Jan-85 07:17:39 EST Lines: 10 Nf-ID: #R:boring:-629300:haddock:13600010:000:420 Nf-From: haddock!johna Jan 25 16:37:00 1985 You have created a directory entry containing just an 8 byte name, 3 byte extension, 1 byte attribute (10H) and all the rest of the fields are zeros. Zero in bytes 26-27 (the starting cluster of a file/directory) indicates the root, as it does in directory entries . and .. (dot & dotdot). I know of no way to remove this entry without a disk editor or GASP!! reformatting. !decvax!ima!haddock!johna (John Adams)