At 04:06 PM 06/14/2000 -0400, Sam wrote:
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>Tom Dimock wrote:
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>> Sam - I don't think that will work - neither delete nor deltree
>> is descended from MatchingTask.
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>What? Well delete darn well should be...
You'll get no argument from me on that! :-)
>> What he wants is a deletefiles task which does descend from
>> MatchingTask. Like the one I posted to the list a couple
>> of days ago......
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>Sounds great! Any reason why this shouldn't simply replace delete?
"deletefiles" with an "includes" argument can do anything delete can do.
If you're interested, I could come up with a replacement for delete which
would support the old "file" attribute, and add in the new functionality
that I put into deletefiles.
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