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From: russ@hpldola.HP.COM (Russell Johnston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Funny Characters in filenames?!?!?!?!
Message-ID: <11250068@hpldola.HP.COM>
Date: 9 Mar 89 17:57:35 GMT
References: <56@a.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu>
Organization: HP Elec. Design Div. -ColoSpgs
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>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've tried Norton Utilities (short of writing directly into the directory), 
>Qfiler, and PC-Tools with no luck.  Can anyone help me?

Try to find a utility available on many bulletin boards called SDEL
(Selective DELete) (or a similar utility).  Use the command:
SDEL *.*
It will prompt you for each file in your current directory, you answer
Yes or No for each file to indicate if you want to delete it.