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Post #4,228 by dpeterson 8/8/01 1:29:24 PM Reply	Try this From the Command Prompt try: "del \\\\.\\(drive)\\(path)\\com1" example: "del \\\\.\\c:\\temp\\com1" Darryl A. Peterson I'm not as funny as I think I am.
Post #4,242 by boxley 8/8/01 3:01:41 PM Reply	no joy access denied error Our bureaucracy and our laws have turned the world into a clean, safe work camp. We are raising a nation of slaves. Chuck Palahniuk
Post #4,252 by bepatient 8/8/01 3:42:47 PM Reply	Ok... ...make sure you're in as admin...then shut down all but essential processes on the machine with Task Manager...then give a shot at del ..filename.. and see it that works. Maybe this baby has attached itself to a process that you can kill. Um...er...well... I have no choice! [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #4,255 by boxley 8/8/01 3:51:01 PM Reply	nope tied to a reserved word (hardware) Our bureaucracy and our laws have turned the world into a clean, safe work camp. We are raising a nation of slaves. Chuck Palahniuk
Post #4,268 by DonRichards 8/8/01 4:35:53 PM Reply	Use a NT boot disk, drill down to one level above the file and use deltree. "When it crosses my mind to do something, I don't ask why, I ask why not. And usually there's no reason not to, so I just go ahead. It's given me the strangest collection of hats"
Post #4,257 by Another Scott 8/8/01 3:55:44 PM Reply	Alternately, the POSIX tools supposedly work... [link\|http://www.humanfactor.com/cgi-bin/cgi-delegate/apache-ML/nh/1998/May/0191.html\|[link\|http://www.humanfactor.com/cgi-bin/cgi-delegate/apache-ML/nh/1998/May/0191.html\|http://www.humanfac...ay/0191.html]] To add to my confusion there is a note about how to delete such files [CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, A:-Z: , COM1, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, COM2, COM3, COM4] under NT, so it must be possible for them to exist. It recomends (I love this) rm from the posix tools. Presumably the permissions angle would be handled the way BP suggests. GL. Cheers, Scott.
Post #4,311 by boxley 8/8/01 8:54:33 PM Reply	posix makes sense because to posix hardware is just another file which can be deleted. Now where and wtf are the Posix tools? thanx, bill Our bureaucracy and our laws have turned the world into a clean, safe work camp. We are raising a nation of slaves. Chuck Palahniuk
Post #4,312 by Another Scott 8/8/01 9:02:48 PM Reply	POSIX stuff here... [link\|http://www.bantsug.org/Unix-NT/ntposix.htm\|[link\|http://www.bantsug.org/Unix-NT/ntposix.htm\|http://www.bantsug..../ntposix.htm]] [link\|http://is-it-true.org/nt/atips/atips156.shtml\|[link\|http://is-it-true.org/nt/atips/atips156.shtml\|http://is-it-true.o...ips156.shtml]] has some NT tips. This one (about deleting files like this) mentions the POSIX tools and the URL-like string to delete the file (mentioned earlier in this thread). Good luck! Cheers, Scott.
Post #4,421 by altmann 8/9/01 3:53:20 PM Reply	More POSIX Stuff MS [link\|http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q120/7/16.asp\|recommends] trying posix commands as well. -- Chris Altmann
Post #4,264 by dpeterson 8/8/01 4:30:25 PM Reply	A combined idea Try combining my idea with Another Scott's idea. example: "del \\\\.\\c:\\temp\\." Darryl A. Peterson I'm not as funny as I think I am.

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