RE: Deleting Files

["Brian Henderson" brian-henderson@xxxxxxxx]

The problem is, if all I wanted to do was delete files, there are of course plenty of ways to do it. But I need to do it with a
macro...from Xy. But I guess that's not possible.

Maybe I can figure out a way to put the file deletions at the end of the program and shell out to
DOS at the end. I've never
actually done that programmatically before. How do you get back to Xy, automatically?


-----Original Message-----


Do not -- repeat -- not take my word for it, because I haven't fooled with it in years, but can you
not accomplish just what you
want in a DOS window, using DOS commands like Deltree or Xdel? I'm not even sure of the commands
anymore, but any old DOS bible
should give them to you.

--Bob Kubie



At 12:29 PM 4/23/2004, you wrote:


After looking through the manuals, I find that there's no way to "blind" delete all the
files in a directory (i.e. DEL *.* or DEL
*).

So my question is...is that actually true, or is there some undocumented method that
"everyone" but me knows about?

This must not be a particularly common need since it doesn't seem to be covered in the archive (or
at least my, probably poor,
attempt to search it didn't find anything).

_Brian Henderson
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