muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au (Murray Chapman) (05/17/91)
Hi there I recently had my hard drive crash on me in the middle of running a disk test program.... consequently my HD is littered with files such as: " QA DiskSpeed --" ^ | +--------------- note the space. I tried to delete them, but csh (version 5.13) won't recognize them, and diskmaster claims to delete them, but doesn't! Any ideas??? The problem is NOT protection bits. +^o^+^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-+-o-+ | | Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au | | | o | | o | | | University of Queensland "I'd rather have a bottle in front | | | o | St Lucia, Queenland of me than a frontal lobotomy" | o | | | AUSTRALIA - Mel Brooks | | | o | | o | +^-^+^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-------------+---+ \__ | o | Hate that! -----> +^-^-^-^-^-^-^-
goodwinm@prism.cs.orst.edu (Michael Goodwin) (05/17/91)
In article <1444@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au writes: >Hi there > >I recently had my hard drive crash on me in the middle of running a disk >test program.... consequently my HD is littered with files such as: > >" QA DiskSpeed --" > ^ > | > +--------------- note the space. > >I tried to delete them, but csh (version 5.13) won't recognize them, and >diskmaster claims to delete them, but doesn't! > >Any ideas??? The problem is NOT protection bits. > Try delete " QA DiskSpeed..." from the CLI with quotes around the name. If that doesn't work, then try it with a star in front of the space, ie. delete * QA DiskSpeed ... there are usually ways to delete files like this. > >+^o^+^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-+-o-+ >| | Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au | | >| o | | o | >| | University of Queensland "I'd rather have a bottle in front | | >| o | St Lucia, Queenland of me than a frontal lobotomy" | o | >| | AUSTRALIA - Mel Brooks | | >| o | | o | >+^-^+^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-------------+---+ > \__ | o | > Hate that! -----> +^-^-^-^-^-^-^- | /\.--.--. /\ | goodwinm@prism.cs.orst.edu | . ) ) ) o / _ / / | Real signatures are in cursive. | ./ / / / .-- /--. .--. (/ \/ | | / / \__/\__/\___/ (__(__(__/\__/\_ |
peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) (05/17/91)
In article <1444@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au writes: > >I recently had my hard drive crash on me in the middle of running a disk >test program.... consequently my HD is littered with files such as: > >" QA DiskSpeed --" > ^ > | > +--------------- note the space. Perhaps it isn't a (or one) space, but one (or several) non-printable chars. >I tried to delete them, but csh (version 5.13) won't recognize them, and >diskmaster claims to delete them, but doesn't! Just try from normal Shell: list ?QA#? or if this doesn't list these files:# list #?QA#? and then use delete ?QA#? (or delete #?QA#?, respectively) to get rid of them. -- Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to \\ Only my personal opinions... Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk