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From:	Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Remove bad directory
Date:	Thu, 25 Apr 1996 10:18:55 -0700
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Bill Klein wrote:

> I have some directories whose corrupted names contain
> symbols like smiley fact, heart, spade or paragraph. Is there any way to delete 
> these items
> without reformating the disk? I have the DOS commands rename, erase, delete and
> deltree with no success. Thanks,

If they just have nonprintable names, then you can use wildcards with the DOS
command DEL to get rid of them.

If there is something more seriously wrong (not just bad filenames; invalid file
references and such), then you'll need to use a disk-repairing utility like CHKDSK
to take care of it.

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