Subj : Re: Deletion of files with special characters in name
To   : Stan Brown
From : Ulrich Hagen
Date : Thu Feb 28 2002 07:34 pm

From: Ulrich.Hagen@f3.n342.z1.cereal.mv.com (Ulrich Hagen)
Subject: Re: Deletion of files with special characters in name

From: Ulrich Hagen <Ulrich@Uhagen.de>

In our last exciting episode qx1741@bigfoot.com (Stan Brown) wrote:

>E. S. (Steve) Fabian <ESFabian@BellAtlantic.net> wrote in
>comp.os.msdos.4dos:
>>Please look up the topic "File Names" in Help. You will see that only
>>the characters in [a-zA-Z0-9!#$%&'()-@^_`{}~] are proper. If any other
>>characters (including German, French, Hungarian, Spanish letters not in
>>the roman alphabet) are used in a file specification, handling them
>>becomes difficult. Try quoting the whole filespecification:
>>
>>      del "aou.txt"
>>
>>It might help.

Tried it, same result. 4NT says it deleted one file, but it's still there.

>Also, you can type "DEL *.TXT" and _not_ hit the Enter key. Instead,
>press the Tab key repeatedly until the desired file name comes up.
>If 4NT works like 4DOS, it will quote the filename automatically for
>you.

Same thing, filename completion via Tab key finds the file alright, after
pressing Enter it says "1 file deleted", and the file is still there.

>A third option: "DEL *.TXT /P" followed by Enter will make 4DOS (and
>presumably 4NT) prompt you before deleting each file that matches.
>You can say N to all of them except the specific one you want to
>delete.

Again, same result.

Well, thanks anyway. So it looks like 4NT can do anything with these files,
like 'touch/c', 'dir', 'copy' (just tried it), just not 'del'. CMD.exe, on the
other hand, _can_ delete these files.

"Somebody should research that ..."

Is there a (online) resource where I can learn about codepages? I still do not
want to give up, maybe I can set the codepage for 4NT to be the same that the
rest of the system uses. That might possibly solve the problem.

Ulrich
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