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From: shapiro@rb-dc1.UUCP (Mike Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Funny Characters in filenames?!?!?!?!
Message-ID: <397@rb-dc1.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 89 17:26:11 GMT
References: <56@a.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu>
Reply-To: shapiro@rb-dc1.SanDiego.gould.UUCP (Mike Shapiro)
Organization: Gould CSD, San Diego
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In article <56@a.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu> manager@a.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu (Cris Fuhrman, Systems Manager) writes:
>On one of the hard-disk machines here at school, we have some files and 
>directories with funny-characters (smiley faces, hearts, diamonds, etc.) in 
>the file names.  How do I delete these files?  How did they get there?  


Try writing the delete command using a ? in place of the funny character
in the file name.  In case you accidentally delete a file you didn't intend,
use the Norton Utility QU to unerase the file.




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Michael Shapiro, Gould/General Systems Division
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