Re: Wanted: Recursive File Deletion Capability

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From: Peter Barker
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1991 01:25

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In article <1991Jun5.203434.8397@hubcap.clemson.edu> tjmurr@hubcap.clemson.edu (Tom Murray) writes:
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>I need a DOS executable that will recursively delete the contents of a 
>directory, its subdirectories and the directory itself (you may recognize
>this as the function of the Unix 'rm -r' command.)
 
Write a small assembler program (or use in-line assembler in C) to call
DOS INT 21h, fn 3Ah (remove subdirectory) with the carry flag set. I
believe this will have the effect you want. (undocumented DOS).

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Subject: Re: Wanted: Recursive File Deletion Capability
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