> 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?
DELTREE is not an internal command. You should find DELTREE.EXE in C:\DOS.
However, both portions of COMMAND.COM (resident and transient) should still
be in memory after DELTREE completes, so it shouldn't need to reload it.
It'll delete COMMAND.COM no problem anyway - at least on my DOSes, once a
file is loading and executing the disk file is closed.
> Will the deletion command
> halt after command.com goes, or complete before the machine goes stupid?
The machine will be fine even after DELTREE returns. No problem until you
try and run something from C: or run something that requires CoMMAND.COM to
be reloaded. In fact, you could SET COMSPEC=A:\COMMAND.COM and carry on
working I think.
Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett, http://www.deltasoft.com)
To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message.
Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies.
