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- From: joe@jsnode.equinox.gen.nz (Joseph Skinner)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Trascan Imitation
- Message-ID: <721264202joe.joe@jsnode.equinox.gen.nz>
- Date: Sun, 08 Nov 92 23:10:02 GMT
- References: <cexMDfe00UhWE4PFAB@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Nov3.045602.8574@cs.uoregon.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov3.045602.8574@cs.uoregon.edu> santeew@sisters.cs.uoregon.edu (Wes Santee) writes:
- >In article <cexMDfe00UhWE4PFAB@andrew.cmu.edu> jg3s+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeffrey Michael Gerber) writes:
- >>
- >>It is my understanding that DEL will NOT do it in this case. For
- >>example, drag a shadow or another SOM object to your trashcan and try
- >>this. Since there aren't actually any files in the directory, it
- >>doesn't work.
- >>
- >>Can anyone confirm this or show me that I'm wrong?
- >>
- >>Jeff
- >
- >It also seems that this wouldn't work if you move other folders
- >(i.e. directories) into the "trash" since del won't remove
- >directories. I guess you'd have to write something that
- >recurses through all directories and wipe them out, but
- >that still doesn't solve the shadow/SOM problem that Jeff
- >points out above.
- >
- >
-
- could try using the rm command something like rm -R desktop\trashcan\*
- as this would get rid of all subdirectories but not the EAs etc.
-
- Ok rm is not a standard command but its been ported to OS/2 and is
- really useful.
-
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