Ms-dos question

Dennis Brantley dennis at dati.com
Fri Apr 17 18:38:50 EDT 1998


Higgins, Caroline wrote:
> 
> We run resident Windows95 on an NT network.  I want to delete
> all items in the cache every time the system is rebooted.  I have edited
> the autoexec.bat file to include
> 
> del c:\progra~1\netscape\naviga~1\cache\*.*
> 
> I did this a long time ago at another institution and it worked well.
> Following the *.* I included a switch such as (I can't remember exactly)
>  |y
> /y
> \y
> 
> Now I can't get this to work!  (At the other place we were
> running 16 bit software).  Does anyone know the switch that
> will tell DOS 'Yes' to delete all files in the cache rather
> than prompting for each file?
> 


Creat a text file with simply the letter "y" in it.

Then:  del *.* < (filename)

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