Commodore PC - How to Delete a Directory

More About Files and Directories 11
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Shortcut You can also type the letters cd for the chdir com
mand to save time. For example, the following commands are the
/—^ same:
cd\user\pete
_ chdir \user\pete
If you want to see the contents of the \user\pete directory, you
/*—s can use the ms-dos dir command. The subdirectory might look
] like this:
Volume in drive A ha5 no ID
() Directory of A:\USER\PETE
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TEXT
FILE1
4
<D
<D
<D
TXT
File(5)
ir >
ir >
i r >
5243
836320
08-09-86
08-09-86
08-09-86
08-04-86
bytes free
1
1
1
0:09a
0:09a
0:09a
9:30a
Note that MS-DOS lists both files and directories in this output. As
you can see from the display, Pete has a subdirectory named text;
f~\ the "." refers to the working directory \user\pete; the ".." is short
for the parent directory \user, and filel.txt is a file in the
\user\pete directory. All these directories and files are on the
y*-N disk in drive A.
Note Because files and directories are listed together, you can-
(~\ not give a subdirectory the same name as a file in that directory.
For instance, if you already have a path \user\pete, where pete is
a subdirectory, you cannot create a file named pete in the \ user
/**s directory.
How to Delete a Directory
If you create a directory and decide later that you don't want it Removing a directory
any more, you can delete it with the ms-dos rmdir (remove direc-
f0**) tory) command.
The rmdir command lets you delete any directory by specifying
its path, but the directory must be empty except for the "." and
f0*) ".." entries. This prevents you from accidentally deleting files and
directories.