Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!phri!news From: roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: How do I remove lots of directories Message-ID: <1991Jan24.155305.12156@phri.nyu.edu> Date: 24 Jan 91 15:53:05 GMT Sender: news@phri.nyu.edu (News System) Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City Lines: 14 I'm sure this is a trivial question, but a scientist here has a PS/2 hooked up to some sort of lab instrument. The instrument control program creates, for each run, a directory called .smp and puts 4 files in it. Naturally, after several hundred runs, his disk is starting to get full and he wants to remove all of the old data. Also, naturally, he asked me how to do it, but being basically a Unix type I couldn't figure out what to do. Can somebody please tell me the DOS equivelant of Unix's "rm -r *.smp"? -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy "Arcane? Did you say arcane? It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"