In trying to run Elm, the system tells me that it thinks that Elm is already
running.  It says if this is not true, that I should remove a particular
file.  No Problem, except I dont know the UNIX command for Delete.

Can anyone help me?

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The command is    rm   (for "remove") plus the filename.  The file must be in
your current directory, or you must specify a path to it as part of the
filename.

As in most operations involving filenames, you can use templates (or
"filenames with wildcards" for you DOS folks).  ? matches any one
character (except for . at the beginning), and * matches any zero or
more characters (except for . at the beginning) (and neither matches
the directory separator / ).  If you do this kind of thing with rm, it's
generally a good idea to use the -i option, which will result in your
being prompted for each file before it is actually removed.

To see all the options on rm, from a Unix shell prompt type    man rm
(or from a Picospan ok: prompt type !man rm).

This situation with elm can happen if the previous time you ran elm,
you didn't exit properly -- for instance, if you lost your phone
connection.  Elm creates a temporary scratch file which it normally
deletes on exit, and if it sees that the file is still there, it
refuses to run and gives the error message indicated in #0.

I believe the file is in the /tmp directory, so your rm command would
look like:   rm /tmp/whatever

Thanks!

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