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From: theobaby@well.UUCP (Paul Theodoropoulos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Phantom of the Operating System
Message-ID: <15015@well.UUCP>
Date: 15 Dec 89 00:59:18 GMT
References: <44410@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: theobaby@well.UUCP (Paul Theodoropoulos)
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Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <44410@bu-cs.BU.EDU> bear@bu-pub.bu.edu (Blair M. Burtan) writes:


>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



>Anyone have a solution? 

Have you tried:
 
 
          delete "*"
 
This forces deletion only of the filename that matches that ASCII
character.
 
Paul
 
>>>Save Bandwidth!! Keep .sig files SHORT!! Paul Theodoropoulos, theobaby@WELL<<