--Why would you think that the pre-leading backslash "\" will look at --the sub-folder under the current directory?
Because the help file seems to indicate that The following command erases all files in the OLDSALES directory on the current drive. ERASE \oldsales\*.* -----Original Message----- From: "A. Razzak Memon" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:17:52 -0500 Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: syntax At 03:01 PM 1/15/2013, jan johansen wrote: >Figured it out >ERASE \CertsToEmail\*.* does not work. >ERASE CertsToEmail\*.* does. > >ERASE doesn't seem to like the leading \. >Either that or I have a setting wrong somewhere. FWIW ... Logically, the pre-leading backslash "\" will look at the "root" of the current drive, and not the sub-folder under the current directory. You are trying to delete files from the sub-folder under the current directory. Why would you think that the pre-leading backslash "\" will look at the sub-folder under the current directory? Very Best R:egards, Razzak. www.rbase.com [http://www.rbase.com/] www.facebook.com/rbase [http://www.facebook.com/rbase]
