rm - Arguments too long

From: cljlk (cljlk@hotmail.com)
Date: 04/22/03 

From: cljlk <cljlk@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:32:37 -0400

I use rm -r directory, it hang for 3 days, it still could not
delete the directory. Thus I cd directory and rm *, I got
"Arguments too long". How do I delete files? A
can I have other alternation option to remove the directory?
Thanks