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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Bug With PC-DOS 3.1 DEL command?
Message-ID: <785@kontron.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-May-86 14:54:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: kontron.785
Posted: Thu May 15 14:54:47 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 17-May-86 05:07:34 EDT
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Organization: Kontron Electronics, Mt. View, CA
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We've found what looks like a severe bug with the PC-DOS 3.1 DEL command --
watch out!

One of the engineers working for me typed:

	DEL A.O
        
and was asked "Are you sure (Y/N)?"

Not being thoroughly familiar with PC-DOS, he didn't realize that this
prompt is put out when you say "DEL *.*", so he said "y<return>" and
the entire directory was cleared out.  A little experiementation found
that DEL followed by ANY single filename caused it to assume that we had
typed "DEL *.*".

ERASE works correctly -- only DEL (which should be equivalent) fails.

Clayton E. Cramer