From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@netcom.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 95 13:41:29 PST
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Subject: Re: Even more unix holy war. Was "Clinton freezes U.S. assets .."
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On Fri, 27 Jan 1995, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> In Unix, I can use a single command to delete an entire file tree --
> rm -r. In DOS, I have to delete each directory by hand.

Use the command deltree /y.  Or any of the cool third party
utilities, or the windows file manager which offers a true
hierarchical view unlike the hierarchical view offered by
the sun OS file manager.

> DOS doesn't even have a make utility -- perhaps you should do without
> using make ever again, as DOS is obviously superior.

I wonder how I have been compiling my files all these years.

I use make and nmake to do any non procedural task in DOS that
involves file dates and file existence, not just to compile files.

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