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From: lroberts@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Larry S Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: How does del *.* work?
Summary: How does del *.* work?
Keywords: del *.*
Message-ID: <1991Jan8.123410.1564@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 8 Jan 91 12:34:10 GMT
Sender: Larry Roberts
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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I have written a program that uses the findfirst, findnext, and remove library
functions to delete files from a directory, however, I have noticed that the
dos command "del *.*" works almost instantly when compared to my program.  My
program has to access every file and it seems like the dos command only makes
one disk access.  Also the remove function will not take wild cards, so this is
not an option.

How does del *.* work, and how can I incorporate this in my software?  Thanks.
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Larry S. Roberts

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