Tandy 1000 MS-DOS Reference Manual page 92

Chapter 6 / Command Reference
Examples
ere s e
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would be used after you combine the files A.lst and B.lst from
the current directory into a new file All.lst on a different direc-
tory.
It
would erase all files with the extension .lst in the cur-
rent directory. You should make sure that there are no other
files you wish to keep that have the .lst extension.
Warning: If you include an extension, such as the .lst
used here, ERASE does not prompt you before erasing
the files, regardless of whether use a wildcard. It
prompts only when you use the full wildcard
(*.*).
erase \bin\user\mary\text.txt [ENTERI
erases
+
he file Text.txt from the directory BIN \ USER \ MARY
on the current disk.
era s e b: \ use r \
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h n \
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ENTER
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tells MS-DOS to delete all the files in the directory
\USER\JOHN on Drive B. MS-DOS asks:
Are you sure?
(VI
N)?
erase b: \bi n\user \mary
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ENTER
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tells MS-DOS to erase all files in the \BIN\ USER\MARY
directory on Drive B. MS-DOS prompts:
Are yo u sur e (V
IN)?
era s e
f
i 1 e 2
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ENTER
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erases the file File2 from the current directory.
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