>I need to delete a directory that has 2 read-only files in it.
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>DELETE FILE and ERASE will not remove read-only files. I can not seem to find a way to change the attributes of a file, so then I could delete the files.
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>I know the RD command will delete the directory once I remove the files.
>I hope I am missing something simple. Any help would be appreciated.
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Steve,

If the WSH is an option, I'd use the Scripting.FileSystemObject in this sort of case

oFSO = CREATEOBJECT("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
* Delete files matching the skeleton
* even if the read-only bit is set
oFSO.DeleteFile(lcfilespec, .T.)