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From
29/08/2002 12:01:06
Cetin Basoz
Engineerica Inc.
Izmir, Turkey
 
 
To
29/08/2002 11:23:56
Dave Nantais
Light speed database solutions
Ontario, Canada
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00694966
Message ID:
00694994
Views:
8
>Upon exiting a program the following command is executed on certain directories and their subdirectories
>
>DELETE FILE THIS.NowDir + "\*.BAK"
>
>The command executes rather slowly...
>
>
>Would cycling through all file names
>USING
>=ADIR(laFiles, '*.BAK')
>
>and then issuing a delete file command on the exact file name
>something like this...
>
>FOR lni = 1 to x
> DELETE FILE laFiles[ lni , 1]
>ENDFOR
>
>would this speed things up a little ?

Have you tried :
erase ( THIS.NowDir + "\*.BAK" )
It might be faster.
Cetin
Çetin Basöz

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