Subject: Un-removable file?
To: None <PORT-MAC68K@NetBSD.ORG>
From: T. Sean (Theo) Schulze <71410.25@CompuServe.COM>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/20/1997 16:48:00
Well, things are moving along here...
I re-installed NetBSD from the InfoMagic CDROM using an older version of
the installer (1.1 instead of 1.1c) and that solved my problem with
"/dev/rsd0a NOT LABELED AS A BSD SYSTEM". Gathering new courae and hope
from successfully setting up my account, and not having "^?" show up when
I hit the delete key, I decided to try to cpin gzip-1.2.4.tar.gz using
the Minishell in the installer. I wanted to move the file from
"Operations" my Mac drive onto "Unix Box", the drive I have NetBSD on.
("Unix Box" is actually the name of a minimal Mac partition on a 160MB
Quantum GO drive I have installed as a second internal drive.) I ran
into problems because I didn't know how to deal with the space between
Unix and Box. I had read somewhere that Unix will accept spaces in a
file name if they are precede by "\", so I entered:
"cpin Operations:gzip-1.2.4.tar.gz /Unix\
Box/usr/tschulze/gzip-1.2.4.tar.gz"
Now I have a 220KB file called "Unix\" on my root directory, and when I
try to rm it, I get an error message that the file or directory does not
exist. Still it does show up when I do a "ls -laF". Is there other way
of getting it off my disk?
Scratching my head,
Sean.
T. Sean (Theo) Schulze
71410.25@compuserve.com TSSchulze@aol.com
tsschulze@t-online.de
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