home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- COMMAND: DELETE DOCUMENTATION: None
-
- FUNCTION: Deletes specified files in the current directory with user prompting.
-
- FORMAT: DELETE filename[.ext]
-
- TYPE: Public domain software (D.N.Ikle,1671 Newport St.,Denver,CO 80220)
-
- REMARKS: DELETE is a batch file command, requiring the Extended Batch
- Language, that provides some protection against accidental erasure
- of files. A file specification, which may contain global characters,
- must be supplied and the file(s) must be in the current directory.
- Before the files are deleted, the file specification and the name
- of the default directory are displayed. The user is then prompted
- to continue or to terminate execution without deleting the files.
- If the choice is to continue, the file specification is passed to
- the DOS command ERASE, and the specified files are deleted. Error
- messages are displayed and execution terminates if the file does not
- exist in the current directory, if a path name was entered, or if
- no file was specified. The DOS command DEL has been aliased to
- DELETE by use of the alias file option of the public domain utility
- DOSEDIT, which is installed in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
-