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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: v11i133: ndelv00, delete all but list (part 01/01)
Keywords: util, files
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.085925.20973@uwasa.fi>
Date: 11 Apr 91 08:59:25 GMT
References: <3660@sixhub.UUCP>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <3660@sixhub.UUCP> ibmbin-request@crdgw1.crd.ge.com writes:
:
>    ndel is a utility to delete all files in the current
>directory except those that you specify.  The source code
:

For general interest.  There is an old, but a very useful little
utility /pc/sysutil/no.zip which excludes files from any operation
one wants to perform (not just from del).  The idea is simple. The
files are hidden for the duration of the execution.

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