If you have Vesoft, try running the God command then purge.

Jean Huot
Northern Credit Bureaus Inc.
-----Message d'origine-----
De : Steve Douglass <[log in to unmask]>
À : [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date : 21 mai, 1999 10:03
Objet : Purging Protected Files


>By accident, files which reside in the SYS account were restored from tape
>into another account (I'll call it the 'accident' account).  This has given
>us two copies of files such as SYSGEN.PUB and CI.PUB, one in the normal SYS
>account and one in the 'accident' account.  Try as I might,  I cannot purge
>many of the files from the 'accident' account, as the OS (MPE/ix 5.5 pp 6)
>"knows" that they are system files.  I have tried purging the 'accident'
>account, the groups in the 'accident' account, and the files by individual
>names.  I have tried altering file characteristics using both MPE and MPEX
>commands, and I still can't get the OS to let me purge these files.  A
>LISTF,-3 shows the files' security to be off, but the files are labeled
>'PROTECTED'.
>
>Does anyone have any ideas about how I can purge these files, perhaps by
>changing their characteristics so they are not 'PROTECTED' any longer?
>
>Thanks for whatever ideas you can provide.
>
>Steve Douglass
>HP Systems Manager
>BFGoodrich Aerospace
>