RE: Deleting IFS files

[thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx]

On Fri, 07 December 2001, "Walden H. Leverich" wrote:

> 'rm -r' does work in the / file system, saved a lot of time when I deleted
> BEA from my machine. Java environments have DEEP tree structures.


Although this does "work", it needs QShell installed; and you can't rely on 
QShell for anything that'll be distributed to unknown systems. Rob's complaint 
is the same one I have about RMVDIR. The root file system should support this.

Tom Liotta


> -----Original Message-----
> From: rob@dekko.com [mailto:rob@dekko.com]
>
> RMVDIR DIR('/a')  RMVLNK(*YES)
>
> However I've yet to find a file system in which the RMVLNK(*YES) doesn't
> generate CPFA0AC-"Request cannot be completed.  Directory contains objects."
> Which basically makes this a worthless keyword.

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