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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: HELP: can't get rid of a directory called "LPT1"
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.173352.22327@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1103@wspcrd.PeachtreeCityGA.ncr.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:33:52 GMT
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- In <1103@wspcrd.PeachtreeCityGA.ncr.com> jrs@wspcrd.PeachtreeCityGA.ncr.com (Jim Shockey) writes:
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- >Hi. I had a directory named "RPT1" which I erased the other day. While I
- >attempt to recover it using Norton Utilities I gave it a wrong name -- "LPT1"
- >and now I can't do anything about it. All I want to do is to erase it.
- >Please help me. Please, please, please...
-
- Why not just go back into Norton Utilities and do it, if it won't work
- any other way (and it won't -- unless you do something to tell DOS to
- not automatically treat a 'file name' of LPT1 as the printer port;
- there is a setting to do this, but I don't recall what it is)?
-
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