I''ve zapped files with names containing illegal characters by using wildcard that expanded to the particular file... V/R James Robbins wrote: > > I ran into a situation (quite a while back) where I had a file on a > DOS machine that had illegal characters in it. I couldn't rename > or delete it. I finally got rid of it by going into Basic and deleting > it from there. Since Basic requires the file name to be in quotes > it accepted it and deleted the file. > > -- > James A. Robbins > Network Engineer > The Ohio State University > Chemistry Department -- James W. Meritt, CISSP, CISA Booz, Allen & Hamilton phone: (410) 684-6566
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