RE: Generic deletion of an object

["Bale, Dan" <DBale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob, for those of us only vaguely familiar with IFS and remember all to well
the PC-DOS era, the command

     del '/qsys.lib/rob.lib/mydtaara.dtaara'

looks like a real, live, DOS command line command.  I thought the same thing
as Don did.  It didn't click that this could be run from an AS/400 command
line.

It was a legit question.

Saving bandwidth is a great idea.  Let's stop the spam threads, PLEASE.
Send emails using only TEXT, not MIME, not HTML, only TEXT.  When you reply,
erase the seven line "This is the Midrange System Mailing List!" trailer
that gets tacked on to every message; I love the multi-layered responses,
but I hate seeing & having to wade through 20 of those 7-line trailers.
Saving bandwidth means that you will NOT reply to this paragraph saying
"Right on, Dan!" ;-) , but only if you have something to add or modify to
the paragraph.  I would also suggest that emails that express only "Thanks
for that great solution, Tom!" (or somesuch) be done privately.  

- Dan Bale

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Berendt [mailto:rob@dekko.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 8:57 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Generic deletion of an object

Save the bandwidth.  Try prompting for the command before asking the
question.


DRF@HeiligMeyers.com on 03/09/2000 08:47:54 AM
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Subject:        RE: Generic deletion of an object

Pardon my ignorance for I can barely spell IFS, but don't these commands
have to be run from the PC or LAN?  Or do they only work for PC/LAN type
objects?

Donald R. Fisher, III
Project Manager
Heilig-Meyers Furniture Company
(804) 784-7500 ext. 2124
Don.Fisher@HeiligMeyers.com

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Use the IFS.
* sample
del '/qsys.lib/rob.lib/mydtaara.dtaara'
* remove members - must be done before deleting a file.   Have to have an
exception to prove the rule.
del '/qsys.lib/mylib.lib/myfile.file/*'
* remove the file itself
del '/qsys.lib/rob.lib/file.file'
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