"dot" file deleted!

[S.PEARSE]

I've got a good one for you unix wizards. Somehow (I don't know
how), the "dot" or "." file in one of my directories was removed.
I cannot read nor access anything in the directory as a result.
In fact, I cannot even remove the directory! Apparently, that
dot file was pretty darn important.

Result is, I have a useless directory taking up disk space.
Question is, can someone tell me how to remove a directory with
no dot file. Better yet, can you tell me how to re-access the files
in that directory? When I type "rm *" to delete the hidden files,
it says "* not found". When I type "rmdir [file]" it says,
"directory not empty". Is there something I can do to remove
the inode?

Any suggestions appreciated! I am on Unix Sys V rel2, vax 11/780.


-- 
Steve Pearse
ihnp4!hound!pearse