On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 08:21:49 -0500, Dean Coffey wrote:
> {snip}
>> 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.
> {snip}
> 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.
I can't email it because I can't figure out the true name of the file.
It "appears" to be named BEOS.INS, but that is just the illusion. I
believe it has some strange character hidden in the file name, but I
haven't been able to guess what that character might be. If you want
the file you can download UNRAR250.ZIP. You should unzip the archive
on a floppy drive because of the problem with trying to delete the
file which falsely "appears" to be named BEOS.INS. The file is ascii
text and it is readable in some file viewers. Most of the words and
phrases found in it are intelligible, but it doesn't make sense to me
as to what this file is for, or what it does, or why it has such a
strange name, whatever it is. I didn't spend a whole lot of time
studying it because I was interested mainly in just figuring out how
to delete the darn thing. As mentioned before, to delete it I had to
deltree the directory. I might have been able to delete just the
single file if I were able to figure out its "true" name.
Sam Heywood
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