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From: abcscnge@csuna.csun.edu (Scott "The Pseudo-Hacker" Neugroschl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Funny Characters in filenames?!?!?!?!
Message-ID: <1748@csuna.csun.edu>
Date: 10 Mar 89 07:12:49 GMT
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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?  
#I've tried Norton Utilities (short of writing directly into the directory), 
#Qfiler, and PC-Tools with no luck.  Can anyone help me?

Cris, Norton 4.0 Advanced has a directory editor which will allow you
to edit a directory in "directory format" rather than as hex dump data.
Change the names to clean up the funny characters and then delete them.
Alternatively, you might be able to use alt-key sequences to enter
the funny chars for deletion,but I wouldn't swear to it.
-- 
Scott "The Pseudo-Hacker" Neugroschl
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