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>WARNING: If anyone should download UNRAR250.ZIP you would
>be well advised not to unzip it to a directory on your hard
>drive. This zip file contained a 654 byte file named BEOS.INS,
>or something similar, that I could not figure out how to delete
>by any method other than by resorting to "DELTREE"!!!!! The
>file had no hidden or system or read-only attributes and it
>apparently was not a virus. Also there was no problem with my
>disk having lost clusters and cross-linked files. Maybe
>somebody on this list might want to have some fun looking into
>the problem. Maybe there is some way to explain this most
>outrageous undeletable file. I think the problem might have
>had something to do with perhaps an illegal character having
>been inserted into the filename, but I don't know what that
>character might have been.
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If you would, could you email a copy of BEOS.INS to me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and I will check it out. From the name, I'm
assuming it is some sort of file that might be used/recognized by BeOS, which
I run here almost exclusively now.
Dean