On Mon May 31 1999 at 21:06:46 +0900, Guy Santiglia wrote:

> After upgrading from 1.3.3 to 1.4,  I noticed a strange file:
> 
> B?S? ??m?t?qIB\B-]4L#d ?b
> 
> in my root directory.  It appears to be a directory:  # ls -l /
> 
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel      512 May 23 10:07 B?S? ??m?t?qIB\B-]4L#d ?
> 
> I can't seem to remove it.  "rm -rf " doesn't work.  The characters that
> I pasted into this email are not the same as the ones shown for the strange file
> in the root directory.  
> 
>   How can I remove a file like this?  And where do you think it came from?

I have no idea where files like that come from, but 'rm -ri *' is useful
if you can't figure out how to match the filename in any other way.

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