Hi, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
"p> At 05:06 PM 11/30/1999 +0000, ben wrote:
>It will. 'DELTREE /Y C:\' will do something like this:
>Deleting C:\DOS...
>Deleting C:\TEMP...
>And I've seen it do that. By accident. Which is *not* fun at all. :)
"p> Now, there's something... If command.com that I'm using is on c: and
"p> I do a deltree /y c:\ (say because I'm planning to install something
"p> new and don't feel like rebooting to bootable floppy first) will it be
"p> able to delete the file it's using? Will it complain that the file
"p> command.com is in use, or is it sufficiently in ram to execute the
"p> command even though it gets deleted before all of the drive is gone?
"p> Will the deletion command halt after command.com goes, or complete
"p> before the machine goes stupid? I shoulda tried it, really. I might
"p> yet, on one of my surplus systems. bye,,,,,,,,,,,,,,(\
Brings to mind a former employer of mine, who's a nice guy, better
educated than me, and (at the time anyway, was) not very
computer-clueful.
Twice, he called me up to fix his computer, when he was trying to delete
some files and accidentally deleted his whole root directory. Finally
had to mark the key files in the root, all of them, as "Read Only."
I figure, by the time he figured out how and why to change them, he
should know enough to figure out taking off the RO attribute, and enough
to not delete the entire root directory -- at least, no more often than
I do. <grin>
... RAM DISK is NOT an installation procedure!
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