Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!dkuug!ambush!ambone!leif
From: leif@ambone.UUCP (Leif Andrew Rump)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re^2: Need help removing directory !
Message-ID: <139@ambone.UUCP>
Date: 22 Aug 88 16:53:03 GMT
References: <1027@pc.ecn.purdue.edu> <200005@hpmcaa.HP.COM>
Organization: AmbraSoft A/S (Denmark)
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While we are at it - try this one - BUT ONLY ON A (HARD)DISK THAT YOU
DON'T CARE ABOUT! (I WONT take any responsebility for any of you out
there!)

Make a directory, move down to it, make another directory and move
down, ...

    C:\>mk 1
    C:\>cd 1
    C:\1>mk 2
    C:\1>cd 2
    C:\1\2>mk 3
    ...

Continue until MS-DOS tell you that your path is to long. Then try to
delete you last created directory  :-)  If your MS-DOS has the same
bug, then you will release that you can't remove it, because MS-DOS
count! The path is one character to long (63 characters as far as I
remeber) so it can't handle it!! I had to use PC-tools Prune-function
to move part of the directory so MS-DOS would allow me to delete it!

   Leif Andrew Rump, Ambrasoft A/S, Roejelskaer 15, DK-2840 Holte (Denmark)
 UUCP: leif@ambone.dk, phone: +45 2424 111; ABC BBS: +45 68 00 544 (2:505/38)

Please note the node-change:                    Ambone, Italian for a pulpit
(The following interpretations emerged          Am_bone, Ambrasoft A/S bone
 when Ambone was put down on paper and          Amb_one, Ambrasoft A/S #one
 accepted - they are solely mine!!!!!)          ...