Hi Winston.

02-Jun-03 07:29:25, Winston Smith wrote to Renato Zambon

 WS> The classical method for deleting a file list is to use a looping
 WS> mechanism and a postional parameter.  I am not exactly sure how
 WS> 4DOS works, but in UNIX it would be something like:

 WS> If there is no WHILE statement, then folks usually use the "empty"
 WS> error condition, A LA --::
    # DELIT -- Delete a file list.
    ON %1ERROR GOTO DONE
    :LOOP del %1
    shift goto
    :LOOP
    :DONE echo Done.

 WS> Of course, you can use FOR and WHILE loops to make things easier,
 WS> but that is the basics.

 yeah for helps: in bash (unix):   for x ; do rm $x ; done
 otoh this works too:              rm `cat delete.lst`
 or maybe something using xargs would be better?

 WS> if there are more file names than shell array namespace can handle,

with unix that's usually plenty, with 4dos it's about 512 bytes :(



another 4dos approach  (compatible with version 4 and up) is

 for x in ({at}delete.lst) do del %x

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