I just jumped in, but might have been a permissions thing if in linux

On Friday 11 January 2002 08:50, you wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 10:42, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
> > Dave Sherman wrote:
> > > Try booting from a rescue floppy, as this will put you in "pure" DOS.
> >
> > Tried and the response I got once I was fairly deep into the directory
> > structure was that the directory I wanted didn't exist. I tried entering
> > the name in CAPS and in 8.3 format but no luck with the particular
> > directory I wanted. I was able into get into other directories but no
> > the one I wanted.
> >
> > Hylton
>
> Since DOS is not case-sensitive, as long as you spelled the directory
> name correctly, DOS would have found it. As far as I can tell only
> logical conclusion is that the directory really does not exist. Could
> this be an instance where Windows is actually maintaining a single file,
> but represents it to you (in Explorer) as a folder? I believe the IE
> cookies folder works something like this.
>
> Dave

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