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From: jesup@mizar.steinmetz (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Not a DOS disk
Message-ID: <7325@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 12-Sep-87 02:26:56 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 12 02:26:56 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 13-Sep-87 02:19:25 EDT
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Reply-To: jesup@mizar.steinmetz.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Summary: It's a .info file

In article <376@io.UUCP> carlos@zapp.UUCP (Carlos Smith) writes:
>Welll, all I know is what the machine told me. I had a drawer that I attempted
>to discard with the workbench (on my hard disk, unfortunately). The operation
>failed with an "error 205, object not found". It wouldn't delete the directory
>because it wasn't empty, and the only thing listed in the directory was a file
>that it complained it couldn't find. I tried a simple 'C' program to unlink
>the file directly, it also failed because it couldn't find the file listed
>in the directory.

Aha!  What you had was a xxxxx.info (xxxx is the name displayed) file (an
icon) with no associated file.  When you tell it to delete it, it can't find
the regular file (it doesn't exist).  When you tell it to delete the directory,
the icon (.info file) still exists, so it can't delete the dir.  To get
rid of the hanging .info file, from CLI type 'delete xxxx.info' (from the
right directory.)  Your C program failed for the same reason.   To see all
this, go to the directory and do a 'list'.  You'll see xxx.info but no xxx.

	Randell Jesup  (Please use one of these paths for mail)
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