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Re: 3 bugs
- To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: 3 bugs
- From: Benjamin Riefenstahl <benny at crocodial dot de>
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 12:20:40 +0200
- CC: John Wiersba <John dot Wiersba at medstat dot com>, "'Thomas dot Wolff at icn dot siemens dot de'" <Thomas dot Wolff at icn dot siemens dot de>
- Organization: Crocodial Communications EntwicklungsGmbH
- References: <03F4742D8225D21191EF00805FE62B9904B3F1C5@aa-msg-01.medstat.com>
Hi all,
For any file that Explorer can't deal with, try using this syntax in
cmd.exe:
del \\?\c:\tmp\xxxxx
replace c:\tmp\ with the actual path using DOS style (backslashes) and
replace xxxxx with the actual underlying file name, like e.g. "t." .
The Prefix "\\?\" tells NT to do no parsing at all on the file name but
pass it to the file system driver unchanged.
This trick should probably go into the FAQ, we had a similar problem
before already.
so long, benny
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Benjamin Riefenstahl (benny@crocodial.de)
ISION Internet AG
Ruhrstr. 61, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany
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