Author: Andrew Dados
Date: 13:12:55 04/06/00
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On April 06, 2000 at 16:02:42, Andrew Dados 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_. > > As many others suggested here, it's probably some weird character within files >name. Try dumping dir output to a file and examine it. I remember that some >freeware windows file managers could see/move/delete such a weirdos, but can't >recall which ones. (BTW, in good, old days Norton utilities allowed to edit dir >entries easily...) > > Good luck :) > Andrew Another idea: find a mask matching _only that file_ on desktop, so for example "dir ga*.*" outputs only your file, then either "del ga*.*" or first "ren ga*.* ga1" then deleting it can be possibly applied....
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