errant files

[VEC2098%RITVAX.BITNET at cornellc.ccs.cornell.edu]

        Oh masters of Unix, I [being a low level apprentice] have a request.
        I have a file in a directory the shows up as -rw-r--r-- etc. when
        I do an ls -al on the file. Now I want to get rid of this file but
        chmod does not work, it just acts as if the file does not exist,
        yet the file gets listed in the directory. Any help would be
        appreciated. Thanx in advance.

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        Vance Cochrane
        Dept. of Computer Engineering
        Rochester Institute of Technology
        vec2098 at ritvax