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Article #7835Re: C questions (intermediate?)
From: Adam Mirowski
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1992 11:55
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1992 11:55
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In article <1992Mar18.132954.9633@cs.umn.edu>, krantz@cs.umn.edu (Don Krantz) writes:
%% In <1992Mar17.202925.16262@csrd.uiuc.edu> weather@sp90.csrd.uiuc.edu (Stephen A. Weatherford) writes:
%% >>What's is the fastest way to delete all file in current dir?
%% >If you're using Turbo C, you can look at the commands findfirst(),
%% >findnext() (which let you get the files in the directory) and unlink()
%% >(which deletes a file).
%% If your library has a "system()" function, try this:
%%
%% system( "del *.*" );
This is wrong. Use something like system ("echo y | del *.*"),
but this won't be portable across DOS versions. French DOS
needs o(ui) or n(on). If you don't provide the correct letter,
the machine will hang. A ^C or ^Break usually permits to terminate
the system() call.
--
Adam Mirowski, mir@chorus.fr (FRANCE), tel. +33 (1) 30-64-82-00 or 74
Chorus systemes, 6, av.Gustave Eiffel, 78182 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines CEDEX
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!wupost!uunet!mcsun!corton!chorus!opera.chorus.fr!mir From: mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,alt.sources Subject: Re: C questions (intermediate?) Message-ID: <13152@chorus.fr> Date: 19 Mar 92 11:55:18 GMT References: <1992Mar16.051932.18878@DMI.USherb.CA> <1992Mar17.202925.16262@csrd.uiuc.edu> <1992Mar18.132954.9633@cs.umn.edu> Sender: mir@chorus.fr Reply-To: mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski) Organization: Chorus systemes, Saint Quentin en Yvelines, France Lines: 19