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- Documentation for IDCKILL.EXE
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- Copyright (c) 1986,87,88,89 Infinity Design Concepts, Inc.
- all rights reserved
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- Version 2.2
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- IDCKILL is a powerful utility useful for house cleaning
- your harddisk, say, before a backup. The program prompts
- for a wildcard filename mask. After entering the mask,
- the program will expand the mask into a full filename
- and redisplay this filename awaiting confirmation
- from the user before proceeding. If you answer "Y" to
- the "proceed" prompt, IDCKILL will delete every file
- in every subdirectory that matches the mask that you
- supplied.
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- The program is primarily intended for use before a backup.
- I get so aggravated during the backup when I see thirty
- .BAK files go by, when I know that is just a waste of time
- and disk space.
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- An example.
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- If you entered *.BAK as the mask, and then
- answered "Y" to the proceed prompt, IDCKILL would delete
- every file in every subdirectory on the disk that has an
- extension of BAK. Note also, that a drive designation may
- be given.
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- WARNING:
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- Entering *.* for the mask WILL DO JUST THAT. It
- will CLEAN THE HARDDISK. Be very careful, it is a lot
- easier to make this mistake than you think !
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- OPTIONS
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- Help:
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- You may get a brief summary of the IDCKILL commands by
- entering IDCKILL /H
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- Command line options:
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- There are several ways to invoke IDCKILL. The command line
- options and subsequent ErrorLevel codes allow batch file
- execution of the program.
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- Normal mode,
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- Enter IDCKILL alone and the program will come
- up in normal mode, where you are required to enter and
- confirm all information.
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- Filemask mode,
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- Enter IDCKILL filemask. This option will start
- IDCKILL and skip the prompt for a filemask. All operations
- are displayed and require user confirmation before proceeding.
- The filemask may contain a drive designation.
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- The [S] option,
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- Enter IDCKILL filemask [S]. This mode will delete
- all files on the disk in all subdirectories that match the
- filemask. IDCKILL will display all of it's actions, but there
- will be no verify prompt.
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- The [SV] option,
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- Enter IDCKILL filemask [SV]. This option is the same
- as the [S] option, except you must confirm before any deletions
- take place.
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- The [A] option,
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- Enter IDCKILL filemask [A]. This option will
- completely automate IDCKILL. IDCKILL will NOT show its progress
- and will NOT wait for confirmation, it simply proceeds with
- the deletions, therefore you MUST make sure that your
- command line syntax is correct the FIRST time !
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- The following table summarizes the options and actions.
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- Ask for Display Verify Autoexit Command Errorlevel
- filename progress action option on exit
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- YES YES YES NO NONE 0
- NO YES YES NO filemask 1
- NO YES YES YES [SV] 2
- NO YES NO YES [S] 3
- NO NO NO YES [A] 4
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- Errorlevel codes in addition to those shown above are,
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- 5 = DOS version below 2.0 (program requires 2.0 or above)
- 6 = Invalid filename on command line
- 7 = User aborted
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- Copyright (c) 1986,87,88,89 Infinity Design Concepts, Inc.
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