Posted by rf on 08/28/06 08:05

dorayme wrote:

> <h1>Index of /website/gallery/brainGym</h1>
> <ul><li><a href="/website/gallery/"> Parent Directory</a></li>
> <li><a href="Icon%0d"> Icon
> </a></li>
>
> Golly, what is that after the name? A space of some sort!?

That is a carriage return.

You cannot of course remove that file using command line FTP as the
"carriage return" you type in does not become part of the file name but
rather indicates to the FTP client to process the message (or, rather,
indicates to the OS to pass this command line to the client).

Try a wildcard (if the FTP server supports it). Rename icon* to iconx (for
example) and then delete iconx

You could also point your windows explorer (not IE) to the FTP server and
delete it that way.

This is not a ghost file, it actually is there but just with a name you
cannot type in. I get this all the time when I am testing stuff in Arabic
and Chinese etc. Can't remember at all what the series of keystrokes were to
obtain a file name.


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Richard.

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