Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!haven!adm!xadmx!mcvax!kernel.co.uk!mjh@uunet.uu.net From: mcvax!kernel.co.uk!mjh@uunet.uu.net (Mark J. Hewitt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Ghost file Message-ID: <17579@adm.BRL.MIL> Date: 18 Nov 88 09:39:05 GMT Sender: news@adm.BRL.MIL Lines: 12 You probably have a non-printing character in the filename. You don't say what UNIX you run, but you should look at your `ls(1)' manual page to determine how you see all the characters in the name. For System V it would be ls -lab to show such characters in octal `\nnn' form. Mark J. Hewitt usenet: ...!{mcvax,uunet}!ukc!kernel!mjh JANET: mjh@uk.co.kernel voice: (+44) 532 444566 other: mjh@kernel.co.uk fax: (+44) 532 425456 old style: mjh%uk.co.kernel@uk.ac.ukc paper: Kernel Technology Ltd, Development Centre, 46 The Calls, Leeds, LS2 7EY, West Yorkshire, UK