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To: Gabor Zahemszky <zgabor@CoDe.hu>
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Subject: Re: Removing files 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 30 Jul 1996 11:41:02 -0000."
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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 18:09:02 CDT
From: Kent Vander Velden <graphix@iastate.edu>
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In message <199607301141.LAA01801@CoDe.CoDe.hu>, zgabor@code.hu writes:
>
>Are you sure:
>2) these files haven't got any ``flags'' (like immutable, or append-only)?
>(man 1 chflags;man 2 chflags) - try ls -lo /....
>(I tried it, and with rm file, it asks, with rm -f file it only send the error
>)

  I had never heard of this command (chflags) before.  Using 'chflags
noschg' and then 'rm' cure the problem.  Thanks!

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Kent Vander Velden
graphix@iastate.edu