Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!merch!spudge!johnm From: johnm@spudge.UUCP (John Munsch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Phantom of the Operating System Message-ID: <7583@spudge.UUCP> Date: 14 Dec 89 17:00:40 GMT References: <44410@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Reply-To: johnm@spudge.UUCP (John Munsch) Distribution: comp Organization: Friends of Guru Bob Lines: 12 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 *" Ah, maybe I can help. The next time you get a file named * or ? or "" (as I did), get a copy of Browser (written by Peter "never going to change my sig" da Silva I believe). With it you can select files like this by pointing to them and then just select delete from the menu, poof... I believe Browser appeared on one of the fish disks. John Munsch