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From: carlos@io.UUCP (Carlos Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Not a DOS disk
Message-ID: <381@io.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Sep-87 19:39:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: io.381
Posted: Mon Sep 14 19:39:31 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 16-Sep-87 02:10:45 EDT
References: <373@io.UUCP> <2310@cbmvax.UUCP> <376@io.UUCP> <7325@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Reply-To: carlos@chip.UUCP (Carlos Smith)
Organization: Interleaf, Cambridge, MA
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In article <7325@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> jesup@mizar.steinmetz.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes:
.In article <376@io.UUCP. carlos@zapp.UUCP> (Carlos Smith) writes:
..	[describes not being able to delete a directory because a file
..	 exists, but go to delete file and "error 205 - file not found"]

.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)
.	jesup@steinmetz.UUCP (uunet!steinmetz!jesup)
.	jesup@ge-crd.ARPA

I appreciate the comment, and I could see where this could happen and cause
great confusion. However, in my case the directory was empty, there were NO
other files around except (or not even?!?) the file the directory thought was
there but wasn't (or wasn't there, but was, or was it wasn't was it?).

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			Carlos Smith
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