The end
of file marker doesn??™t appear when you send the resulting file to the console as output. Likewise,
if you want a printer to output the partial page of data you sent to it, output a Ctrl+L character to it.
You can see a complete list of standard control characters at
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
chars/c0.html
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WORKING WITH DATA
Removing Files with the
Del
and
Erase
Commands
The
Del
and
Erase
commands are functionally equivalent. The two commands started with different
versions of DOS, but they perform the same task now: erasing files that you no longer need from
the hard drive. Unlike the deletion that Windows performs, the files don??™t end up in the Recycle
Bin; the deletion is permanent. These commands use the following syntax:
DEL [/P] [/F] [/S] [/Q] [/A[[:]attributes]] names
ERASE [/P] [/F] [/S] [/Q] [/A[[:]attributes]] names
The following list describes each of the command line arguments.
names
Defines the file or directory names to remove from the hard drive. You can use wildcard
characters to specify the filenames. See the ???Working with Wildcard Characters??? sidebar for
details. Deleting a directory also deletes all of the files that the directory contains.
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