[Coco] Recursively delete directories

[Mark Marlette]

Bill- Yes, this was before NitrOs-9 and source code. 

Use the source Luke! 

We just found the reference to the prompt in the code then NOP'd it out.

Having an option would be so much better.

Making sure you want to delete everything is a must.... hahaha

Fun little project! 

Mark Marlette
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On Tuesday, April 28, 2020, 12:10:35 PM CDT, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote: 





Mark Marlette, I was just looking at the deldir source in the repo and saw the same thing, though my idea is to add a cmdline parm "-s".
At the start of the source, add a parm check and if the "-s" is present, then set a flag.
When the program does the user prompt, check the flag, if the flag is set, then jump the user prompt. I think theres a flag that needs to be set here as well. The user prompt sets for d, l, & q (delete, list & quit), we would need to set for "d", though I still haven't traced down what exactly that value is or where to put it.


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Marlette <mmarlette at frontiernet.net>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tue, Apr 28, 2020 12:36 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Recursively delete directories

Ed,

Many years ago in our Color Computer Club here in Mpls, TC^3. Robert Brose did a presentation on how to do just this.

He disasm deldir, then found the prompt reference code and NOP'd it out. It was very simple to do. We called it kildir

I have this on one of my systems at the cabin. If you don't get a response here then let me know and I will email it to you.

Regards,

Mark Marlette
http://www.cloud9tech.com
mark at cloud9tech.com
mark at gamecamaddict.com






On Monday, April 27, 2020, 08:54:00 PM CDT, Ed Orbea <ed.orbea at gmail.com> wrote: 





I'm looking for a OS9 Level 2 utility that silently deleted all 
subdirectories and the files con]tained in them. Kind of like a 
combination of DelDir and clearD

Thanks



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