On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:10:01 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 23:30:52 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> Will running this command also work just as well if one runs it from >> within a "DOS-box"? Has anyone here ever tried doing that? Did you >> get the desired results? > I suspect it will give similar results to running a batchfile containing > the command "del %0". > Let me know if it is the same, and if not what the differences are. > Greg > -- Arachne V1.71;UE01, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ I am very curious to know what would happen. The problem is that in order to try it and find out for myself I would have to first downgrade a perfectly good DOS machine by installing Window$. Before I could install Window$ I would have to delete a lot of useful software to make room on my hard drive for installing the useless wincrap. After conducting the experiment I would have to re-install a good version of DOS to replace the M$ version that had replaced the good version as a result of downgrading the system to Window$. To conduct such an experiment would involve a lot of work and a lot of hassle. Later, after the completion of the experiment, I would have to go to all the work of completely restoring my machine so that it would run as well as it did before installing the Window$ downgrade. For these reasons I will not go to the trouble of conducting such an experiment myself on any of my own perfectly good machines. BTW, I have offered to upgrade some Window$ computers belonging to my neighbors for free, but strange as it may seem, they aren't interested in having them upgraded to DOS. They are interested in downgrading their computers to newer versions of Window$ which are far worse than the versions they are already running. Isn't that weird? I would really like to hear from somebody who has tried running the command "DELTREE C:\WINDOWS" from within a "DOS-box". I am really curious to know what happens. Of course I know I can count on getting the results desired by running the command from within DOS, but as for running the command from within a "DOS-box", I am curious to know what would happen simply for the sake of curiosity. Sam Heywood -- I have offered to upgrade the operating system on some of my neighbor's Window$ computers for free by running the deltree command. Also I have even offered to install some useful software in them for free after removing all the wincrap. The only money I would ask of them would be whatever it would cost me to replace their pseudo-modems with real ones. elonging to some rela restore my machine so that it would be as good as then after
