deleting a file with an invalid filename ????

You are lucky it didn't work! "d*.jpg" would have deleted every .jpg
that has a name that begins with "d" !!! Even I have six of those, & I
am not a collector...

C:\dir /a /s C:\d*.jpg

Directory of C:\cpqs\Support\Data
DESC JPG 3,096 06-29-99 11:49a Desc.jpg
DESCRI~1 JPG 3,096 06-29-99 11:49a Description.jpg
2 file(s) 6,192 bytes

Directory of C:\Program Files\CeQuadrat\justburn\help\images
DATABASE JPG 69,769 07-02-98 2:17p database.jpg
1 file(s) 69,769 bytes

Directory of C:\Program Files\Plus!\Themes
DANGER~2 JPG 99,357 04-23-99 10:22p Dangerous Creatures
wallpaper.jpg
1 file(s) 99,357 bytes

Directory of C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\OOBE\IMAGES
DIALTONE JPG 50,987 04-23-99 10:22p DIALTONE.JPG
DRPSHDW JPG 6,788 10-25-99 8:48p Drpshdw.jpg
2 file(s) 57,775 bytes

Total files listed:
6 file(s) 233,093 bytes


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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"Fun" wrote in message
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| when i tried to drag to recycle bin it gave an error ...
| files system error (1026) ..
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| deleting with dos using ? did the trick ...
| but it is weird because i tried deleting with d*.jpg but it didn't
work..
| then i tried d?iagram.jpg, it worked ...
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| thx for all of you )
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| Don Phillipson wrote in message
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| "Fun" wrote in message
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| hi,
| one of the computers i have at work has two files at desktop using
the
| same
| filename ...
| diagram.jpg
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| the person who use the computer doesnot know how it appeared (
| since the sign is invalid we cannot delete the files...
| when i use dos command i can see them listing.
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| So use DOS DELete with a wild card
| for the invalid character:
| DEL d?iagram.jpg
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| --
| Don Phillipson
| Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)
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