Dear pippi,
Yes, this will delete COMMAND.COM. The reason it will do so is
because DOS doesn't have a lot of file-locking mechanisms. DOS
will load DELTREE completely, then unlock that file, then actually
run the command. Since the COMMAND.COM is only needed
*after* the DELTREE program runs, when it must be reloaded,
deltree will be able to delete _everything_.
An interesting quirk, no?
Anthony J. Albert
On 30 Nov 99, at 18:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> At 05:06 PM 11/30/1999 +0000, ben wrote:
> >It will. 'DELTREE /Y C:\' will do something like this:
<SNIP>
> Now, there's something... If command.com that I'm using is on c: and I do
> a deltree /y c:\ (say because I'm planning to install something new and
> don't feel like rebooting to bootable floppy first) will it be able to
> delete the file it's using? Will it complain that the file command.com is
> in use, or is it sufficiently in ram to execute the command even though it
> gets deleted before all of the drive is gone? Will the deletion command
> halt after command.com goes, or complete before the machine goes stupid?
> I shoulda tried it, really. I might yet, on one of my surplus systems.
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