>>semi-follow up to the MD issue
>>
>>I need to remove a root directory, which may contain subdirectories. Recursion seemed the simplest solution:
>>1. Delete the files
>>2. Remove the subdirectories
>>3. Remove the root directory
>>
>>FUNCTION RemoveDirectory
>>Parameters dirpath
>> Dele file (dirpath+"*.*")
>> entries = adir(aRemDirs,dirpath+"*.*","D")
>> If entries >= 0
>> for i = 1 to entries
>> If !Inlist(aRemDirs(i,1),".","..")
>> RemoveDirectory(dirpath+aRemDirs(i,1)+"\")
>> Endif
>> Next
>> Endif
>> RD (dirpath)
>>Return && RemoveDirectory
>>
>
>You might try the following; it uses the Scripting.FileSystemObject to do the same thing, without some of the strange things related to ADIR():
>
>

FUNCTION DelFolderTree
>LPARAMETER cPathToDelete, toFSO
>LOCAL oFSO, oFolder
>IF TYPE('toFSO') # 'O' OR ISNULL(toFSO)
>   oFSO = CREATEOBJ('Scripting.FileSystemObject')
>ELSE
>   oFSO = toFSO
>ENDIF
>oFolder = oFSO.GetFolder(cPathToDelete)
>FOR EACH Folder in oFolder.SubFolders
>    DelFolderTree(Folder.Path, oFSO)
>ENDFOR
>oFolder = ''
>oFSO.DeleteFolder(cPathToDelete,.t.)
>oFSO = ''
>RETURN

>
>>I read in the help that functions' parameters are passed by value, and i THOUGHT this would protect the scoping necessary for recursion. It's late on a friday, and while i can see this isn't working, i can't seem to figure out why.
>>
>>I'm hoping someone will immediately see what i'm doing wrong. TIA

Ed,

Do you know if there's any Win32API equivalent of the DOS DELTREE command?