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From: amercer@thor.wright.edu (Art Mercer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Phantom of the Operating System
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Date: 13 Dec 89 13:32:47 GMT
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From article <44410@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, by bear@bu-pub.bu.edu (Blair M. Burtan):
>> I'm using ARP 1.3 :-) and somehow, I managed to create a file
>> on my harddrive called *.  Major oops.  You can't say "delete *"
[... omitted ...]
>> * had returned to haunt me.  Anyone else have this problem?
>> Anyone have a solution?

I've done this and managed to create a file named #?. 
When this happens, use the interactive mode of the DIR command and
type DEL when the offending filename is displayed.

Art Mercer
Associate Director, Academic Computing Resources
Wright State University
Dayton, OH 

BITNET:  amercer@wsu.bitnet

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