Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 10:32:57 04/06/00
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On April 06, 2000 at 13:26:44, Pete Galati wrote: >On April 06, 2000 at 13:09:10, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>I decided to download Lenoid's chess program to see how it compares to TSCP. >> >>I used his program to save a game. It wrote a file to my desktop which I can not >>open, move, rename, or delete. >> >>Can anybody think of a solution to this problem? I've rebooted and run Scandisk >>from DOS and Windows. It thinks everything is fine. I don't have any other disk >>utilities. >> >>-Tom >> >>P.S. TSCP won _decisively_. > >A hidden file? Try using the file manager instead of the explorer, and in the >file manager Veiw/By_File_Type, check the "show hidden/system files" It should >be in your Windows/desktop directory right? You should be able to see it with >winfile, hit alt-enter to change it's file attributes, and dump the file. > >Dos usually is hard to find hidden files with unless you know the specific file >name and where it is, if you do, the old "attrib -h filename" should make it >show up (if I remember that right.) > >Pete No, the file is clearly visible. If I try to delete it under Windows, I get an error message. If I try to delete it under DOS, it says the file can't be found (although it's clearly there when I do a "dir"). It seems like my FAT is messed up, but I thought Scandisk would fix that... -Tom
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