[Info-vax] The (now lost) future of Alpha.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/28/2018 5:07 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <2689a237-86cc-4686-b981-d461ea3ab40c at googlegroups.com>, John
> Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> writes:
>> You need the /TREE qualifier for DELETE to match the behavior.
>> (Personally. , it should have been /RECURSIVE and not /TREE but nobody
>> asked me)
> 
> Actually, "recursive" is a misnomer here.  Recursive behaviour is when
> something calls itself.  That isn't the same as [...].

It sort of is.

You do something for all files in current dir and you recursively
do the same for all subdirs.

Arne