From: ammammata@tiscali.it   
      
   R.Wieser formulated the question :   
   > It does make me think a long way back to DOS, where adding an, IIRC, ALT 254   
   > (which didn't display) would cause similar "can't find, can't delete"   
   > problems.   
      
   excel version 2 (two) had a similar trick on the installation floppy   
   disk: the hidden file, whose name included a "special" space, was   
   added/removed by the setup program, to avoid multiple installations   
      
   using norton utilities it was possible to make changes :-)   
      
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