Problems with delete folder someFolder

2008-08-04 Thread Alain Farmer
Hello y'all, I'm trying to script MetaCard 2.5 so that it can DELETE a FOLDER. But it just doesn't work, no matter what I try. Given my experience with the command-line in DOS and in UNIX, I know that one cannot delete a folder that has something *in* it. So I tried emptying the files in my

Re: Problems with delete folder someFolder

2008-08-04 Thread Brian Yennie
Alain, The .. and . folders aren't actual folders - they are just symbolic. Thus there is nothing to delete. Problems deleting regular folders is another story, but the . and .. entries shouldn't be the source of your problem. If you are really stuck in Transcript land, you could try