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   J French to frits.kieftenbelt@NOSPAM.wanadoo.nl   
   Re: KillDir not with long filenames?   
   30 Jan 06 09:17:18   
   
   From: erewhon@nowhere.uk   
      
   On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:20:16 +0100, "Fritsch Kieftenbelt uit Raalte   
   \(Bij Marienheem\)"  wrote:   
      
   >Hello.   
   >   
   >When I use killdir to delete a file, only names from 8 characters or shorter   
   >wil delete.   
   >But names like MYFILE~1.TXT don't work with killdir.   
   >   
   >FileName$ = "C:\PROGRA~1\MYDIRS~1\MYFILE~1.TXT   
   >KillDir FileName$   
   >   
   >Above doesn't work.   
      
   I doubt that it is short file names   
      
   If the current directory is the one you want to kill, then one cannot   
   RmDir the directory   
   - same goes if one is in a Dir() loop inside the directory   
      
   It would be interesting to see the code for KillDir()   
      
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