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From: williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Kent Williams)
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Subject: Re: need directory pruner
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Date: 30 Aug 90 17:08:29 GMT
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No, I don't have a disk nuker, but to write one wouldn't be hard.
The trick to killing directories fast is to use the FCB delete call.
Something like

nuke_dir(name) {
		for all directories X in name {
				change directory to name/X
				nuke_dir(X);
		}
		set all files read/write/visible;
		fcb_delete(*.*);
		/* everything left must be a directory */
		for all directories X in name {
				rmdir(name);
		}
}
nuke_dir("\\");

				
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             Kent Williams ---  williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu 
"Had a dream one night/That the tree had lost its middle/So he built a trunk
  of chicken wire/To try to hold it up/But then the wire, the wire/Turned to 
        lizard skin/and he climbed inside" - 'Wendell Gee', by REM