Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!rutgers!ucsd!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!ncrlnk!ncrwic!mlawless 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 Lines: 10 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 >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.