Hello Jorj,
 \|/  Subject:  hiding error messages
 /|\  On Tuesday April 07 1998 at 22:57, 
      you wrote to Gerald Miller saying:
 GM>> iff exist %trash% .and. exist %info% then^
 GM>>   attrib /q +r %info%
 GM>>   del /q/z %trash%
 GM>>   attrib /q -r %info%
 GM>>   return
 GM>> elseiff exist %trash% .and. not exist %info% then^
 GM>>   del /q/z %trash%
 GM>>   return
 GM>> elseiff not exist %trash% then^return
 GM>> endiff
 JS>  I admit I haven't been following the discussion, I just
 JS>  commented upon a short bit, but isn't this all horridly long?
 JS>  You want to quietly delete %trash%, and, for reasons that
 JS>  utterly escape me, make %info% temporarily read-only.  (It can't
 JS>  be to protect it from getting swept up in the %trash% deletion,
 JS>  since the /z would get it, anyway.)  Assuming both the variables
 JS>  are each a filename, wouldn't one line do it all?
%info is a variable name for the DESCRIPT.ION file (I do not wish to have the 
description for %trash deleted when I delete %trash because the file will be 
placed in the directory again).  %trash is a variable name for Thunder Byte's 
Anti-vir.dat file, which I have to remove when I use McAfee's scan program to 
add validation code to executable files, otherwise Thunder Byte makes a lot 
of noise the next time it runs and the Anti-vir.dat file has not been updated 
to reflect the added validation code.
 JS>  del /eqz /[!%info] %trash
 JS>  "Delete %trash.  If it's not there to delete, don't tell me
 JS>  about it.  And definitely don't bother %info."
Given the long winded information above, is it clear now?
 JS>  With 4DOS, you don't need the terminal %.
Thank you.  I will delete the extraneous "%" characters.
 JS>  And in your long version, you don't need the ^ at the end of the
 JS>  lines.
The "^" characters are likewise gone...
 JS>  And, no, you don't need any parentheses, either.
Thank you, because I was not sure about the parentheses, I had to ask.  I 
don't have to remove them because they don't exist in the file.  :-))
              G'Day ... Gerald
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