murphy@pur-phy (William J. Murphy) (12/14/88)
Recently I was downloading a file, and ran out of space on the floppy I was writing to. In my foolishness, I killed the comm program and left myself with a file with nothing in it, and unable to be erased. When I try to erase it, I am told the file is in use. I assume this means it is locked. Question: How do you unlock this file? then how do I erase it. I was using vt100 and the kermit implementation within it. Bill Murphy murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu
papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) (12/15/88)
In article <1727@pur-phy| murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu (William J. Murphy) writes: | |Recently I was downloading a file, and ran out of space on the floppy I was |writing to. In my foolishness, I killed the comm program and left myself |with a file with nothing in it, and unable to be erased. When I try to erase |it, I am told the file is in use. I assume this means it is locked. | |Question: How do you unlock this file? then how do I erase it. | |I was using vt100 and the kermit implementation within it. After all disk activity has ended, reboot the AMiga. At that time, no locks on the files will be set (the file wil probably be sjown as "empty"), and you can safely delete it. -- Marco Papa 'Doc' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= uucp:...!pollux!papa BIX:papa ARPAnet:pollux!papa@oberon.usc.edu "There's Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Diga!" -- Leo Schwab [quoting Rick Unland] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=