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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: MSDOS recursive dir walk help
Message-ID: <1990Oct1.095324.20933@uwasa.fi>
Date: 1 Oct 90 09:53:24 GMT
References: <2613@naucse.cse.nau.edu>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <2613@naucse.cse.nau.edu> rrw@naucse.cse.nau.edu (Robert Wier) writes:
>
>  Not being an MSDOS expert, I wonder if anyone can suggest
> an easy way out of the following problem:
> While installing a CD ROM drive, I inadvertantly managed to 
> copy about a FIVE HUNDRED data files to a hard disk.  The path 
> looks like 
>  c:\dir1\dir2\dir3\dir4\files
> The problem is that the files are marked READ ONLY (reasonable
> since they came off a CDROM).  Question: how do I delete 'em
> without having to cd into each and every subdirectory above
> the files? (in case it wasn't clear from the above.. there

There are two utilities that might come handy here. The first is
sweep.com (included in /pc/pd2/cpcug.zip), which can be used to
reset all the readonly attributes (sweep attrib -r *.*), and the
second is /pc/pd2/pdel41.zip, which can be used to delete
directories and files.  Be careful, though, with pdel, lest you end
up with an empty harddisk.

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