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From: silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Norton QUerase and .ZIP files
Message-ID: <1990Dec10.025135.21727@xrtll.uucp>
Date: 10 Dec 90 02:51:35 GMT
References: <4512@idunno.Princeton.EDU> <76686@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Reply-To: silver@xrtll.UUCP (Hi Ho Silver)
Organization: Not around here, pal!
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In article <76686@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) writes:
$it's easier, simpler, and faster than your three-step procedure.
                           ^^^^^^
   Not always ... PKZip will individually delete files when it's done,
whereas DEL *.* will delete all the files at once.  For a large number
of files, particularly in a subdirectory, PKZip could be far slower at
deleting the files.  A minor technicality ... :-)
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