Re: Re(2x): Calling DOS/Windows applications

[Nathan Treadway <nathant@ONTKO.COM>]

> Won't "del *.*" wait for a "Are you sure?"? You might need to pipe a 'Y'
> into it. e.g. (del *.* | echo "Y").
>
> To see that this is NOT your problem, put a blabla.tmp file there. Then
> do a "del *.tmp" and see if your result changes.
>

Good point. Under Windows 95 you'll get a separate DOS window poping up with
the prompt from DEL if this happens; you'll at least know what's going on,
but you'll have to answer the prompt before the files are deleted.  Using
'echo "Y" | ' || getenv('COMSPEC') || ' /c del ...' would solve that problem
-- or just change your naming convention so that you can get away with del
*.tmp or whatever.

                                                        Nathan

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