Hello Eddy!

02 Dec 99 10:14, Eddy Thilleman wrote to Holger Granholm:

 ET> Hello Holger,

 ET> 29 Nov 99 20:46, Holger Granholm wrote to Eddy Thilleman:

 ET>>> Was that on a FAT partition with hundreds files in one or more
 ET>>> directories under plain DOS booted (=not under OS/2) without a
 ET>>> disk cache ?

 HG>> AFAIK deltree is a DOS program and consequently it was a FAT
 HG>> patition.

 ET> That still leaves one question I asked to be answered: was it run
 ET> under plain DOS booted (=not under OS/2) without a disk cache?

I have an OS/2 verision of DELTREE and it works on HPFS partions (I've
deleted an old OS/2 installation with it...)

 ET> There are OS/2 programs with the name DELTREE and have the same
 ET> purpose as its DOS counterpart. And DOS programs can be run under
 ET> OS/2, and also on HPFS partitions.

Yep.

 ET> So: was it run under plain DOS booted (=not under OS/2) without a
 ET> disk cache?

Which one?  The DOS deltree would not work under OS/2 and would delete
directories only on FAT partitions when booted to plain "old" DOS.  Disk
caching did not matter as the version with DOS 6 was designed to work with
most disk caching schemes.

James

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