cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) (05/12/85)
Some of you may recall a public domain program called VDEL.COM that
appeared when the PC was still new; I don't know who wrote it,
but it was very useful because it allowed you to specify a wild card
spec of files and you were queried for which files to delete.
Unfortunately, it didn't allow a path name; you had to delete from the
current directory.
This has irked me for some time, so I have taken advantage of the new
Microsoft C V3.0 compilers wild card filespec facilities to build
something I call VERASE which allows a wild card file spec to be used and
asks the user if he wants to delete each file or not. (This is quite
useful when you have dozens of files with similar names, and you don't
want to name each one separately. It's also a good practice to get
into when deleting files, so that you don't accidentally wipe out
stuff in another directory.)
It's an aggravation for me get the source from my PC to the VAX that
I am connected to USENET through; if you want a copy on a 5.25"
single-sided floppy, send me $5. (If you live in California, make sure
you include 6% sales tax; I'm not making much money on this, but I don't
want a hassle from the State.)
Clayton E. Cramer
3601 Parkview Lane #17D
Irvine, CA 92715