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From: mjd@icdoc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: An interesting way to crash gulam shell
Message-ID: <458@ivax.doc.ic.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 12-Jun-87 14:20:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: ivax.458
Posted: Fri Jun 12 14:20:18 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jun-87 01:01:28 EDT
References: <505@myrias.UUCP>
Reply-To: mjd@doc.ic.ac.uk (Martin J Davies)
Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK.
Lines: 16
Keywords: command line interpreter, shell

In article <505@myrias.UUCP> mj@myrias.UUCP (Michal Jaegermann) writes:
>
>   I have a nice mthod for a spectacular crash of Gulam.prg (a version
>
>Now lean back and watch effects.   There is nothing, short of resetting
>your computer, that you can do anyway.   (It will create a recursive
>structure of subdirectories which you cannot remove, since rm command
>does not have either -r or -f option.   GEM will also barf on you after
>a short while, coming with nonsense error messages).

The fix to this is to use gem to move down to the bottom of the tree,
and then to move up only 2 or 3 levels before attempting to delete
the subtree from that point. Keep doing this until you have removed
the entire structure. This worked OK on a hard disc, but make sure to
beef up your 40-folder fix, and reboot to clear TOS's directory map
first.