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From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Phantom of the Operating System
Message-ID: <14095@grebyn.com>
Date: 14 Dec 89 05:26:17 GMT
References: <44410@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <245@estinc.UUCP>
Reply-To: ckp@grebyn.UUCP (Checkpoint Technologies)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing, Vienna, VA, USA
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In article <44410@bu-cs.BU.EDU> bear@bu-pub.bu.edu (Blair M. Burtan) writes:
>This may be a previously discovered/cured problem, but I need
>the help and don't have access to very old news.  So, here goes:
>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 *"
>because ARP kicks in an deletes the entire directory.  You can't


You can try:

   dir opt i
 
for an "interactive" directory.  Type 'D' for any file you want to
delete, namely '*'.