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re: DELTREE DOS command for Win 2000
Monday, February 10, 2003 at 5:11 am
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Posted by TERRY HARRIS (2 messages posted)


Thanks Ron for the RMDIR response, that helped.

While we are talking DOS commands, I noticed that
the Win 2000 "COPY" command is limited to 8 
character wide file names and the "DEL" command is also.
However, XCOPY will work with "long file names".






On Friday, February 7, 2003 at 11:14 am, Ron wrote:
>W2K uses rmdir instead of deltree.
>
>RMDIR [/S] [/Q] [drive:]path
>RD [/S] [/Q] [drive:]path
>
>    /S      Removes all directories and files in the specified directory
>            in addition to the directory itself.  Used to remove a directory
>            tree.
>
>    /Q      Quiet mode, do not ask if ok to remove a directory tree with /S





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re: DELTREE DOS command for Win 2000 (FishMonger: Friday, February 7, 2003 at 11:14 am)

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-DELTREE DOS command for Win 2000 (TERRY HARRIS: Fri, Feb 7, 2003, 9:09 am)
-re: DELTREE DOS command for Win 2000 (FishMonger: Fri, Feb 7, 2003, 11:14 am)
*re: DELTREE DOS command for Win 2000 (TERRY HARRIS: Mon, Feb 10, 2003, 5:11 am)
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