Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!simpsong From: simpsong@ncoast.ORG (Gregory R. Simpson @ The North Coast) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Funny Characters in filenames?!?!?!?! Summary: use ALT-123, and del Message-ID: <13479@ncoast.ORG> Date: 15 Mar 89 04:27:55 GMT References: <56@a.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu> Reply-To: simpsong@ncoast.ORG (Gregory R. Simpson @ The North Coast)In article <56@a.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu> manager@a.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu (Cris Fuhrman, Systems Manager) writes: Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH Lines: 37 >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 >-- You can use the plain old MS-DOS delete command, but you must use ascii equivalents to enter the special characters. If you put your numlock on, and then hold down the ALT key, and then type in a number on your keyboard, it will print the character corresponding to that ascii code when you release the ALT key. For example, ALT-251 will produce a square root sign. You should be able to find a table of the ascii equivalent of a diamond, smiley face, etc in your MS-DOS manual. (On my machine I HAD to use the keypad numbers, the regular numbers across the top didn't work, this may be system dependent.) The files get there in a similar fashion... Hope this helps, Greg -- --- Gregory R. Simpson Prefered Internet: SIMPSONG%LTD2.decnet@ge-crd.arpa UUCP: uunet!steinmetz!ltd2.decnet!simpsong UUCP: !cbosgd!ncoast!simpsong