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A. Grant (ag129@cam.ac.uk) wrote:
> I am trying to delete a directory (that's the file type, not the
> NDS type!) via the NetWare API.  The 'delete directory' call won't
> let me delete a directory that isn't empty.
> 
> What am I doing at the moment is scanning for subdirectories, 
> deleting those recursively, then deleting the files in the directory,
> which I can do in one go using wildcards -- except that it may fail
> because some files are flagged non-deletable, then I have to scan
> all the files individually and change their flags.
> 
> Is there a better way?  How can I get the tree deleted in a minimum
> number of NCP interactions that doesn't involve all that network
> traffic to scan the tree?  Is there a way to handle the read-only
> flags problem?

Well, as far as I know, there is no quick way (but I'm not a
programmer), but you can surely save time, by just setting all files to
read-write, instead of checking first if they are read-only. They are
going to be deleted anyway, so why bother how they looked beforehand.

Bye
Markus
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