Del f/q

hcl-bot · March 19, 2008, 8:39am

Shell("DEL /F /Q " & rootFilename)

what “DEL/F/Q” means here?

hcl-bot · March 19, 2008, 9:00am

Subject: del f/q

DEL is for deleting files on the file system (obviously! ;-))

And /F forces write-protected files to be deleted as well. And /Q means quiet mode; no system requests to the user while using wildcard in the mask.

BTW: You defined no mask or filename; so at least one param is missing.

JK

hcl-bot · March 25, 2008, 4:24pm

Subject: RE: del f/q

A more portable way would be to use the “Kill” statement: