Carl wrote:In general, I thought CP/M was clearly superior to DOS. Remember PIP (Peripheral Interchange Program)? It had many valuable switches, such as Z (to turn off the 8th of a file being copied). And it could talk to any device. If only Gary Kildall had met with and struck a deal with IBM.OS/2's DOS has a /No Confirmation switch: DEL/N *.*. Always wondered why MS-DOS doesn't.Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx