-> ÿ                                                      21-Oct-1996 06
-> Hello William,
->
-> On 14-Oct-96 at 09:25:00, "All" and "William Donovan" were
-> discussing "DEL DIR":
->
-> WD> Hi, I'm looking for a very basic command which seems to be
-> WD> undocumented. Years ago I used it in autoexec.bat to delete my
-> temp WD> dir. As Win versions crashed, I changed the command to ask
-> for a
-> WD> conformation before deleteing my temp dir, as in del *.* or erase
-> WD> *.*.
-> WD> I can't remember the command to delete the dir without a
-> WD> conformation. Thats what I'm looking for so I can run it in a bat
-> WD> file. If anyone out there knows this command (Delete entire dir
-> WD> without a conformation) please can you let me know. Thanks in
-> WD> advance!
->
-> If you are running MS-DOS v6.nn or higher, try:
->
-> DELTREE /Y d:\dirname
->
-> Warning: This command will immediately eradicate the specified
-> directory, any of its subdirectories, and ALL of the
-> files contained within . . . no questions asked.
->
-> Before MS-DOS v6.00, we used to use:
->
-> ECHO Y|DEL d:\dirname\*.*>NUL
-> RD d:\dirname
->
-> Note: This combination will delete the files in "d:\dirname" if the
-> files do not have any attributes protecting them.  If
-> "d:\dirname" still contains any files and/or subdirectories
-> after the DEL command, the RD command will fail with an error.
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Thank you for your reply and your precise wording, I appreciate it
greatly. Echo Y|Del *.* alone by itself was exactly what I needed
and it works fine in a batch file for me. As I don't want the dir
eliminated just the files. I appreciate your help and again thanks much.
                        @1F@Bill@07@
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