Cannot Delete Files

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Matthew Jaggard

I cannot delete files from my computer that were put there
by an FTP server. They are called things
like "com1", "lpt1" and "nul", etc.

Using cygwin doesn't help, and it's NTFS so I can't try an
older version of DOS.

"Cannot delete lpt2: Cannot find the specified file."

Any suggestions?
(By e-mail as well as newsgroup if possible please)

(e-mail address removed)

Mat.
 
From a command prompt try;
del \\.\Drive:\directory\filename
(Note: the period between \\ and \)
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Changing del to rmdir and deleting the whole tree by hand
seemed to work.
Also

dir /x
and try deleting them using their 8.3 short names.
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and this did the rest of them.

Thanks,
Mat.
 
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