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From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Recursively removing directories
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Date: 5 Feb 91 01:33:13 GMT
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dnicola@cs.vu.nl (Nicolaas Dion) writes:

> In article <1991Jan24.155305.12156@phri.nyu.edu>, roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu
> > Can somebody please tell me the DOS equivelant of Unix's "rm -r *.smp"?

I missed the original post, so please forgive the cockeyed attribution.

There are several DOS implementations of rm. One is found in the
UXUTL162 package that recently went across c.b.i.p, and another is found
in the PicNix util package. Personally, I use one written by Frank
Whaley (thanx, Frank!).  All of these will do as you ask.
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