On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 10:39:10 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 07:13:30 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> In a message dated Sat, 22 Jun 2002 08:16:05 -0500, >> Samuel W. Heywood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. >> <snip> >> Sam Heywood >> You probably know this already, but just in case you don't, >> oddball files can sometimes be deleted by using wildcards >> like B*.INS or BEOS*.* . > Thanks. I had of course already tried that. It didn't work! Try this... 1) ren c:\unrar250\b*.* babfile.bdf 2) del c:\unrar250\badfile.bdf I found that renameing files which originally had spaces (or some other illegal character), in their name to a name which has all "legal" characters.... now allows them to be deleted. -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm http://www.thispagecannotbedisplayed.com/
