Hi folks,

On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 10:39:10 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

<snip>
>> 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!
<snip>

here is my way to deal with "undeletable" files:
Run a disk editor of Your choice and overwrite the first letter of the
name of the file with the character 229 in the directory. You can enter it
by holding ALT-key and hitting 229 at numeric keypad (DOS will do the
same when deleting a file). After leaving the editor, chkdsk or similiar
will report a lost cluster chain. Just delete this and the undeletable
file is gone to byte heaven.

HTH Joerg

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