From: sam@campbellsci.co.uk (Samuel James Liddicott) Subject: Re: HUGE filesystem PROBLEM (too big to be true) 12 Feb 1998 10:55:48 -0800 Message-ID: <009e01bd378f$19dfcbb0$2a0110ac.cygnus.gnu-win32@sam.ethernet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Nicola Bernardini , gnu-win32@cygnus.com -----Original Message----- From: Nicola Bernardini To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Date: 12 February 1998 07:50 Subject: HUGE filesystem PROBLEM (too big to be true) >crw-r--r-- 0 0 Everyone 0, 0 Jan 1 1970 con.c Dos box, then do a "del *.*" or failing that, pop up one level and do a "del dir" which deletes all the files in a directory in one fell swoop. I am certain that one of those will work. You may need to be in real dos mode, not dos box, to make it work. If only MS had enforced the : after device names (con:) like the Commodore did with the Amiga. Sam Liddicott | Nothing I say is to be attributed as | Campbell Scientific Ltd. | a company statement or representation. | Campbell Park, 80 Hathern Road, *----------------------------------------+ Shepshed, Leic. United Kingdom. LE12 9AL Phone: +44 (0) 1509 601141 Email: sam@campbellsci.co.uk Fax: +44 (0) 1509 601091 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".