Re: GMC and Root Access [suggestion]

[Paul Warren <pdw ferret lmh ox ac uk>]

On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, James Green wrote:

> I have a series of files stored on a DOS partition written to by NT4. As
> NT4 uses long filenames, all is well with GMC and the cmd line 'rm'
> commands until either comes across a file beginning '- ' (dash space blah)
> at which point GMC reports a permissions error occured (run as root) while
> 'rm' says no arguement allowed or something. NOTE that MC correctly
> manages to delete the file, GMC and 'rm' don't.

rm thinks that you're trying to pass it an option.  rm './- filename'
will work.  Dunno about gmc...

HTH

Paul