Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Erik From: Erik@cup.portal.com (Erik - Dufek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Funny Characters in filenames?!?!?!?! Message-ID: <15674@cup.portal.com> Date: 11 Mar 89 08:19:24 GMT References: <56@a.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 17 In article (56@a.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu) manager@a.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu (Chris Fuhrman) >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? I'm not sure how they got there. I have several programs that leave this evidence of where they've been. A real pain if you don't know how to get rid of them. I use a program called JADU. Just Another Directory Utility. Very powerful and configurable. I either delete them with this utility or rename them. Suggest you try it out. But lacking that use the DOS "?" wildcard to get rid of them. The worst one is a filename with a space. To delete FILEN ME.EXT use "del filen?me.ext" Just make sure that valid files won't get erased with this command. It's best to clear out the directory before using the wildcards. You know Murphy! Erik Dufek