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Subject: Re: lenoid's chess program screwed my hard drive--suggestions?

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 11:33:21 04/06/00

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On April 06, 2000 at 14:12:22, ujecrh wrote:

>>
>>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
>
>It is possible that the file name contains invisible characters (like #256) so
>that when you type 'del the_file' it does not work whereas 'del
>the_file'+ALT+256 (or any combination) it works. Generally speaking using weird
>characters in a file name is a good way to get weir behaviour from OS.
>
>Maybe this is worth a try.
>
>Ujecrh

Possibly, but what weird characters should I type?

Besides, the weird characters may present a problem under DOS, but wouldn't
Windows be able to handle this stuff?

-Tom



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