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From: r3jjs@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Jeremy J Starcher)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: MSDOS recursive dir walk help
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Message-ID: <698@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
Date: 1 Oct 90 16:15:52 GMT
References: <2613@naucse.cse.nau.edu>
Reply-To: r3jjs@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Jeremy J Starcher)
Organization: U of Akron Computer Center, Ohio
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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

I have a program called 'deldir' that will do as you ask.. I don't have
access to it right now or I would send it to an ftp site for you..

Normal MS-DOS cannot recuse directories...

Anther option would be to use a sweep or one of its clones that does recurse
dirctories  (This is built into 4DOS) with the command:

Sweep attrib -r (c:\dir1\*.*)