Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!amdcad!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!philmds!achel!derek
From: derek@achel.UUCP (derek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need help removing directory !
Summary: related problem solved
Keywords: RMDIR
Message-ID: <38@achel.UUCP>
Date: 24 Aug 88 09:04:08 GMT
References: <1027@pc.ecn.purdue.edu> <3396@druhi.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: derek@achel.UUCP (Derek Carr)
Organization: Philips I&E DTS Eindhoven
Lines: 17


I recently had a similar problem, which might be of interest. Somehow,
a 'formatted' sector full of 0xF6's got attached to a subdirectory. On
a normal DIR this didn't show up, and I has unable to delete the
subdirectory. On examining the offending subdirectory with some tool -
I think it was vtree or one of the Norton utilities, it showed lots of
division symbols as _subdirectories_. I was surprised they looked like
subdirectories, but I guess the subdirectory bit was set. (that's 0x10
isn't it?).

I solved the problem using pctools directory maintenance, which
allowed me to remove all spurious subdirectories and eventually remove
the offending subdirectory.

I hope this is useful.

Derek Carr.