[Coco] Intro and need some help (Was: Re: (no subject))

[Bill Gunshannon]

> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Bill
>>> Try "attr file -d" This will make it a file then it can be deleted
>>> normally.
>>
>> Tried that (even though the manual said it wouldn't work).  Directory
>> has to be empty to do that.
>>
>><snip>
>
> Try using dEd to gain direct access to the drive. Follow the directory
> tree to
> the file descriptor and change the first byte so that bit-7 is not set.

Success!!  The HELP page is a bit misleading it says:
  DED <devname>
I thought thast meant it only worked with things like /i0 and I
certainly didn't want to have to walk thru the whole disk looking
for one byte.
What I ended out doing was:
   DED <the bad filename>
and then just Zapping all the sectors so it was an empty directory.
Then a simple DELDIR cleaned it up.

Thanks again for the help.  I now feel comfortable that I can get
out of whatever trouble I get into.  Next step will be to make a
backup copy of my whole disk and then see about moving all the
sources out here so I can play with them.

bill


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