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How to delete a file with garbage in its name



    Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 15:04 EDT
    From: Phil Anton <anton@starbase.mitre.org>


    Does anyone know an easy way to delete a file that has garbage in its name?
    I used <Complete> on a name change, and now the file is inaccessible
    to the normal deletion methods.

    Thanks,

    -phil

I dont want to test this out, for obvious reasons... but...

You should be able to get hold of a proper pathname object for the beast
using FS:DIRECTORY-LIST, then use DELETE-FILE get rid of it.

  bruce
  miller@cam.nist.gov