>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 >-- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ I just downloaded unrar250 via the link provided in an earlier message, and as it turns out, that *is* the version written for BeOS, which would explain some of your problems. The file in question, BeOS Install, is a shell script for BeOS. Just to veryify, I am including a copy of the contents of this small script to make sure I am looking at the same file as the one to which you refer: #!/bin/sh alert --warning "Install unrar, edit your expander.rules to have Expander support RAR archives, and register the 'application/x-rar' MIME type?" \ "No way." "Sure" || \ ( echo $DIRECTORY; cp unrar /boot/home/config/bin/ ; mimeset -f /boot/home/config/bin/unrar ; echo >> /boot/home/config/etc/expander.rules echo "application/x-rar" .rar "unrar l %s" "unrar x -y %s" >> /boot/home/config/etc/expander.rules ; setmime -set application/x-rar -short "RAR Archive" -long "RAR compressed file." -preferredAppSig application/x-vnd.Be-EXPD -extension rar - extension RAR ; alert --info "Have fun." "Sweetness." ) If the above is what you saw, when you viewed it in the text editor, that explains your problem as regards using it. Also, if what you saw is nothing like this and is total gobbledy-gook, it is probably the same file. The latter situation I think would be explained by the difference in file structures (someone correct me if I am wrong), ie, PE vs ELF. As to how to remove it from a harddrive without deleting the entire directory that it's in, I haven't a clue. Sorry I couldn't be more help. Back to lurking now :) Dean
