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dosdel -- Command Delete a file from an MS-DOS file system dosdel [-fv] device:/dir/file dosdel deletes file that lives on MS-DOS file-system device. The MS-DOS file system can reside either on a floppy disk, or on the MS-DOS segment of a hard disk on your system. The MS-DOS file system must be named using the device that holds it, such as floppy-disk drive /dev/fha0 or hard-disk partition /dev/at0a. You can also build a file of aliases so that you can access the drives as a, b, etc. For details, see the Lexicon entry for doscp, which explains how to set up defaults for the dos family of commands. dosdel takes the following options: f Force removal of readonly files. v Verbose output: provide additional information about each action. Example The following command deletes myfile. It assumes that you have defined c to be a default for a device upon which you have set an MS-DOS file system: dosdel c:/mydir/myfile Files /etc/default/msdos -- Setup file See Also commands, dos Notes dosdel does not understand compressed MS-DOS file systems created by programs such as Stacker or MS-DOS 6.0 dblspace. If you are running MS-DOS with file compression, you must copy files to an uncompressed file system (for example, to an uncompressed floppy disk or to the uncompressed host for a compressed file system) to make them accessible to the dosdel.