DS> I don't know how to do it in 4DOS, but I'd take the list and use my
 DS> trusty QEDIT to insert a *del in front of each file name using its

Must be automatic.

 DS> Have you thought of attempting to pipe the output of ffind into the
 DS> delete command?

Yes, but don't know/find the sintax for this, so asked here  :-)

 DS> Although I have never used them, it sounds like if you executed the
 DS> command line of del {at}deleta.lst

d:\ra\fd\files>del {at}deleta.lst
File not found "D:\RA\FD\FILES\{at}deleta.lst"
     0 files deleted

Don't... I did try also "do del in {at}...", didn't work too...

 DS> then you would get what you want -- it would use deleta.lst as a
 DS> list of file names to delete, one at a time.  Of course you could

Is something in this way I'm looking for. Better if simple and
direct, without the temporary list file.

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