From: sos@prospect.com.ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: Calling "del" from makefile's using MAKE 17 Jan 1997 01:02:23 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BC0468.B1A5BC30.cygnus.gnu-win32@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru> Original-To: "'gnu-win32@cygnus.com'" , "'Simon Stebbing'" Encoding: 18 TEXT Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Simon Stebbing wrote: >I've had a problem calling the commands built-in to command.com under >NT4.0, 'del' is one such example. I assume this is because there is no >such >thing as del.com or del.exe, and make doesn't call it's commands via >command.com. > >Is there a syntax to indeed call 'del' from within a makefile, without >having to >write my own "del.exe" or calling any other 'del' equivalent (like rm)? Try "cmd /c del" for NT or "command /c del" for 95. Sergey Okhapkin Moscow, Russia - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".