Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!udel!princeton!phoenix!asjoshi From: asjoshi@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Amit S. Joshi) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc Subject: 'rm' a Unix(tm) lookalike replacement for 'del' Message-ID: <1301@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Date: 11 Dec 87 20:08:20 GMT Reply-To: asjoshi@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Amit S. Joshi) Organization: Princeton University, NJ Lines: 248 Keywords: rm delete del IBM/PC Hello, This is my first attempt at posting something and also the first program that I am actually posting, so please forgive me if I tread on any toes or in general destroy somebody's feelings etc. Appended is a uuencoded archive 'rm.arc' which contains two files : rm.doc - using the program rm.exe - the program itself Sorry but no source (it's a most disturbinly badly coded etc. program and I would be ashamed to say I wrote it....) The program (hopefully) emulates the Unix(tm) command 'rm'. I wrote it after I got tired of typing del 1, del 2, del 3 and so on. I think it does all that the standard unix 'rm' command does, except that it does not accept options in the form '-ir' (it ignores the 'r' option) to give multiple options you have to specify each seperately (for the example it would be '-i -r'). The reason is that it has two new features that 'rm' doesn't. For one you can turn options on and off and options apply to files following the option on the command line only, Combined the two features mean that you can apply options selectively to parts of the command line. See the documentation for details on using it. Disclaimer: There is no warranty impliesd or otherwise about its capabilties and/or fitness for any purpose. 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