Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <38FD8878.87CE1817@crocodial.de> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 12:20:40 +0200 From: Benjamin Riefenstahl Organization: Crocodial Communications EntwicklungsGmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com CC: John Wiersba , "'Thomas.Wolff@icn.siemens.de'" Subject: Re: 3 bugs References: <03F4742D8225D21191EF00805FE62B9904B3F1C5@aa-msg-01.medstat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 ====================================== Benjamin Riefenstahl (benny@crocodial.de) ISION Internet AG Ruhrstr. 61, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com