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Ineradicable file %_ revisited
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- Subject: Ineradicable file %_ revisited
- From: "Peter B. West" <p dot west at mailbox dot uq dot edu dot au>
- Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 10:51:39 +1000
Fellow mailing list masochists,
Thanks for all of the suggestions regarding file %_, which will not go
away. I fear some more information is required.
Bare
ls
in the containing directory yields:
ls: %_: No such file or directory
If there are other files in the directory, the preceding message is output
first, followed by the listing of the "real" files.
Similarly, rm -i * yields
rm: %_: No such file or directory
Reverting to Explorer, and examining properties of %_ gives:
Size 0 bytes (0 bytes)
MS-DOS name:
Created unknown
Modified unknown
Accessed unknown
Attempting to delete the little limpet gives:
Cannot delete %_: Cannot find the specified file etc..
I mention this because of the possibility that this anomaly is GNU created.
This is not necessarily the case, of course.
All (well-meaning) suggestions gratefully accepted.
Yours faithfully,
Peter
__ /__ Peter B. West
/ p.west@mailbox.uq.edu.au
/ "Master, to whom shall we go?"
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