Ms-dos question

[Andrew J. Mutch]

Richard, 

For those of us who are MS-DOS-clueless, where would you place any of
these?
Autoexec.bat??

Thanks!

Andrew Mutch
Northville District Library
Northville, MI

On Sat, 18 Apr 1998 rpage at okway.okstate.edu wrote:

> 
>    Hi! It would be easier (and cleaner) to do:
>    
>       echo y | del c:\progra~1\netscape\naviga~1\cache\*.*
>    
>    or better yet:
>    
>       deltree /y c:\progra~1\netscape\naviga~1\cache\ > null:    [v3.x] or
>    
>       deltree /y c:\progra~1\netscape\users\<ID>\cache\ > null:  [v4.x]
>    
>         **where you replace <ID> with your installed profile name**
>    
>    In addition, we use the same syntax to clean the temp directory on boot.
>    
>    --Richard
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> ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
> Subject: Re: Ms-dos question 
> Author:  <dgrillo at acad.suffolk.edu> at SMTP
> Date:    4/17/98 4:17 PM
> 
> > del c:\progra~1\netscape\naviga~1\cache\*.* 
> > 
> > Now I can't get this to work!  (At the other place we were 
>    
>         Ah, good 'ol DOS.  This is what I usually do:
>    
> del c:\progra~1\netscape\naviga~1\cache\*.* < c:\abc
>    
> I then create a file called abc in the root that just has one line, the 
> letter "Y" (no quotes) and a hard return.  What this does is pass file to 
> the del command.  The del command gets a y, and deletes all the files. 
> (You can came the abc file whatever you want.  I call it Y, but then the 
> example gets confusing.)
>    
> Good luck with it.
>    
> -Dominick
>    
>    
> Dominick Grillo
> dgrillo at acad.suffolk.edu
> Computer and Electronic Services Librarian 
> Suffolk University Law School
> (617) 573-8605
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