On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 21:03:01 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:

>> Good tactics L.D., but they didn't work for me.  One of the problems
>> with this troublesome file was that when I did "dir" in the directory
>> that it was in, it wouldn't even be listed!   Even when I did
>> "xdir +h" it would not be listed!  I could see the file and its
>> "apparent" name by using a DOS file viewer utility.

> If you "couldn't see the file," then the first thing to do is use attrib
> to remove hidden and read only attributes.  Then & only then can you
> delete the file.

It didn't have any hidden and or read-only attributes.  Please read
my post.  The file would not even be listed even by doing an "xdir +h".
(XDIR is a DR-DOS utility)  It was displayed by  the well-known
Ziff-Davis utility DR.COM, but DR.COM did not indicate that it had
any attributes.  With DR.COM I could read and display the file but
I could not delete it!  I also had tried your tactics but they didn't
work for me.  The only way I could get rid of it was to deltree the
directory that it was in.  Very weird!

Sam Heywood
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