Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!feg
From: feg@clyde.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need help removing directory !
Keywords: RMDIR
Message-ID: <31499@clyde.ATT.COM>
Date: 17 Aug 88 13:15:13 GMT
References: <1027@pc.ecn.purdue.edu> <1405@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Whippany NJ
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In article <1405@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM>, mlawless@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM (Mike Lawless) writes:
> In article <1027@pc.ecn.purdue.edu> jmoore@pc.ecn.purdue.edu (James D Moore) writes:
> >
> >then I tried "rmdir lisp" when in the root. When I did this it gave
> >me a message telling me that the file could not be found or that 
> 
> You probably have a "hidden" file remaining in the directory, due to a copy
> protection scheme.  DEL *.* will not delete such a file.  Using Norton, look

There have been a number of identical suggestions for correcting 
the problem--but mostly requiring access to Norton's Utilities.
Some versions of msdos have included a CHMOD utility (and there
are also PD versions around) which is specifically intended 
for the purpose of changing a file's attributes so that the file
might be deleted.  Most versions will give usage simply by typing 
chmod without parameters.

  Forrest Gehrke