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From: cie590l@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Hadgraft)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: How do I remove lots of directories
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.083304.86219@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 24 Jan 91 21:33:03 GMT
References: <1991Jan24.155305.12156@phri.nyu.edu>
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In article <1991Jan24.155305.12156@phri.nyu.edu>, roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
>
>       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 <bunch of numbers>.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"?
> --
This is trivial under Windows 3. Just select the directories and press DEL.
Otherwise, use a version of RM for DOS!
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