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 In my previous posting, I said:

 While installing a CD ROM drive, I inadvertantly managed to 
 copy about a FIVE HUNDRED data files to a hard disk.  The path 
 looks like 

  c:\dir1\dir2\dir3\dir4\files

 The problem is that the files are marked READ ONLY (reasonable
 since they came off a CDROM).  Question: how do I delete 'em
 without having to cd into each and every subdirectory above
 the files? (in case it wasn't clear from the above.. there
 are about 100 dir4 directories, and 5 - 10 files in each directory).

 THANKS to all who sent messages about this..
 The response was extremely helpful.  A summary:

 The responses were about equally divided among the following:

 Use the SWEEP program which appeared in PC Magazine, and is 
 available from their bbs...

 Use 4DOS, which is available from SIMTEL, or (which I prefer)
 wuarchive under /mirrors/msdos/sysutl ( ps - I just can not
 figure out how to reliably navigate around on SIMTEL -- probably
 need to RTFM!)

 Use a Unix rm type command.  I already had one of these (1986)
 but it lacked the recursive functions.  Again on SIMTEL there
 is a package DOSIX, which includes a full featured rm plus
 other Unix type commands.  This rm does have the standard
 unix options.  Thus, using

      rm -fr dir3

 deleted all of the files and subdirectories from dir3 on down, 
 regardless of the file protection attributes.  Worked great.
 I started out with 8.2 meg free, and ended up with 19.2 meg
 free.  

 A few people offered custom written code.  

 To all of you, THANKS!  


 - Bob Wier

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