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From: mlawless@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM (Mike Lawless)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need help removing directory !
Keywords: RMDIR
Message-ID: <1405@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM>
Date: 16 Aug 88 13:32:13 GMT
References: <1027@pc.ecn.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: mlawless@ncrwic.UUCP (Mike Lawless)
Organization: NCR Corporation, Wichita, Kansas
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In article <1027@pc.ecn.purdue.edu> jmoore@pc.ecn.purdue.edu (James D Moore) writes:
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>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 
>the directory was not empty or that path was incorrect. 

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
for any files with the "Hid" attribute set, and clear it.  These files can
then be deleted, and you will be able to delete the directory.