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From: wfh58@leah.Albany.Edu (William F. Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: A bug in ARP 1.3?
Summary: "a" is an abbreviation for "ASK"
Message-ID: <2269@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 11 Dec 89 02:12:04 GMT
References: <14752@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <1989Dec10.195003.10146@NCoast.ORG>
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Organization: Dept of Math & Stat, SUNYA, Albany, NY
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In article <1989Dec10.195003.10146@NCoast.ORG>, bill@NCoast.ORG (Bill Hogsett) writes:
> 
> 	I just deleted a directory and file named a using the arp
> 1.3 delete command.  The only way to do it is to use the full path 
> as the argument to delete rather than just "delete a".  If I just did
> "delete a" the program responded "Nothing to delete".  
> 
***
"A=ASK" is a keyword for interactive-query deleting.

Thus, the command

   delete a *

will query you about deletion of every file in the current directory.  If
you simply want to delete a file in the current directory named "a", then
enclose the filename in quotes:

   delete "a"
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