Author: Pete Galati
Date: 10:40:45 04/06/00
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On April 06, 2000 at 13:32:57, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >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 That's odd. will it let you move it to another directory? or re-name it, then delete it? There has to be a way to get rid of it. Pete
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