Have you tried deleting the entire directory?  If there are other files in
the directory, move them to a temporary directory, delete the directory and
if it works, recreate the directory and move the other files back.

Dale Bryant
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>Win95a explorer (gui) gives the following error for a right click delete:
>Error renaming file:     X   Cannot rename -_-_-_-_: Cannot find the
>specified file.
>Make sure you specify the correct path and filename.
>
>Win95a explorer (gui) gives the following error for a right click OPEN
>(in notepad,
>and notepad works with-out errors otherwise.):
>Cannot find the file
>'C:\Program Files\Borland\Paradox
>Runtime\PRIVATE\badbelow\badbelow2\-_-_-_-_.-_-'
>(or one of its components). Make sure the path and filename are correct
>and that all
>required libraries are available.
>Note the two "parent" directories HAVE been re-named and cleaned out.
>The directory "PRIVATE" and the files (that were) in it are part of a
>commercial program.
>                 Rick
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>>Rick Glazier wrote:   >   ("snip" -- Short version of original post)
>
>>> 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.
>>> 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"