Hi Rick, At the risk of asking the obvious, can you right-click on the offending file in Explorer and Rename it to something that you can then delete in Windows or DOS? Terry L. Clark [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rick Glazier wrote: > The only problem I have now is --- I have a file in a subdirectory > that is zero bytes and DOS reports it is not there, with NO filename. > In Win95a xplorer, it shows dots and dashes. > I went in search of this file in Norton Disk Editor (READ ONLY!) and > discovered that this file ACTUALLY has a "binary type face" name that > is MUCH different than what Win95 "sees", and all the other files have > readable names in "other" directories. > Windows can't find the file to delete it... (The name problem...) > DOS has no name for it, so I can't delete it from there with "del"