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 Lines: 18 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