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Title:VAX and Alpha VMS
Notice:This is a new VMSnotes, please read note 2.1
Moderator:VAXAXP::BERNARDO
Created:Wed Jan 22 1997
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:703
Total number of notes:3722

155.0. "Update file pointer: RDELETE - reverse delete" by CERN::HOBBS (Congrats to the Ignoble Peace Prize winner! (http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/ig_nobel)) Fri Feb 07 1997 00:53

These files have moved to:

	ftp://ftp.gvc.dec.com/pub/rdelete/

-cw

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Note 1433.5                  Need quick FIle Delete                      5 of 14
CERN::HOBBS "Protest the French bomb - kick a poodl" 16 lines  27-JUL-1995 03:46
                       -< get RDELETE - reverse delete >-
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I might be too late, but grab:

        tignes$fta28 d cern"public"::rdelete*/size

        Directory CERN"public"::FAL$DISK:<SYS$PUBLIC>

        RDELETE-ALPHA.EXE;1                          18   9-JUN-1994 11:11:46.00
        RDELETE-SOURCES.SAV;1                        64  27-JUL-1995 09:44:13.00
        RDELETE-VAX.EXE;1                            10   9-JUN-1994 11:14:37.00
        RDELETE.CLD;2                                 1   9-JUN-1994 09:31:15.00

        Total of 4 files, 93 blocks.

It will do a reverse delete for you.  It is also polite enough to skip any
attempt to delete a non-empty directory file, which avoids lots of security
alarms.
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