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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Deleting Old Files?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.224515.4751@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <BzF7oF.J6A@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:45:15 GMT
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- In article <BzF7oF.J6A@acsu.buffalo.edu> utter@acsu.buffalo.edu (William M. Utter) writes:
- > Here's one for ya. I want to know how I can get rid of old "back
- >-up Files". I have 20 or 30 QWK packets with the extension ";#", I don't
- >need these files and wish not to see them everytime I do a DIR. I have
- >tired different commands using the DEL and ERASE functions and none of
- >them seemed to work correctly. (DEL Board.QWK;* and Erase Board.QWK;*)
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- Try enclosing the entire filename in quotes, as in:
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- DEL "BOARD.QWK;3"
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- If you want to use a wildcard, try:
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- DEL "BOARD.QWK;"*
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