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Recently I made a typo when posting to fortran-lang-discourse and sent a correction. I was told I could have edited the original post. Can this be done after sending it? I can’t see how to.
I had put ** (asterisk asterisk) in a post about Fortran e.g. x**n but when I saw it afterwards the asterisks had disappeared and instead some unwanted bold type had appeared. How do I refer to exponentiation in a discourse about Fortran?
Yes, it’s possible to edit after you send it. I don’t know if it is allowed for all users, but I can see a pencil icon that you can click on and it allows you to edit your post:
I changed my Command Prompt script today, for my backups. Most unfortunately, I stuffed up big-time. My script was meant to backup files from three nested levels, which I will call A, B and C. Instead of ending up with the expected hierarchy of A/B/C, I got A/B/C/A/B/C/A/B/C/A/B/C/ etc. I , expected it to continue until it had used up all my disk space, but thankfully it stopped after 10 cycles because the folder name had become too long.
My problem is that I can’t fix this situation. I tried to remove the structure from the top level by entering “rd /s folder name”, which in theory should have worked because of the /s option, but in practice it wouldn’t support the command, saying it “couldn’t find the path” for every file in the top level. I then tried the bottom-up approach, but that didn’t work either, for the same reason. So now I am completely stuck. I just hope that some kind and knowledgeable person in the group wil be able to provide a solution!
