This command i have found is not in existance on an XP machine but if you are runing DOS from one of the versions before until DOS 5 you will be able to use this command.
The actual command is extreamly powerful as if you were to type in DELTREE C: this command would delete every single directory in C drive but if you are specific about what you want to get rid of all the directories in root directory like for example C:\myfiles\ this command would only get rid of this directory and all of the files and directorys in this directory.
Format is another option if you mant to get rid of every file in a drive as DELTREE spends time deleting every single file individually before it deletes the directory and this can be very tedious for the user.
I remember using DELTREE to delete every single file on a hard drive before formating it and this took about 2 hours. Needless to say the next time i just formated it which took a lot less time.
As a side issue why are you using floppy disks?
I use a USB flash drive and boot my workshop machine to windows 98 download the files and then reboot into dos using the F8 key. This may not be the most elegant way to do this but i still think that in some respects i can do this faster than copying all the files of of a 1.4 mb disk. and besides what happens when one of your g-code files is too big for a old tech floppy disk. (These things are too unsafe for my important data... besides USB flash drives are washable. I have washed (accidently) about 5 of the ones that i use and they still work fine)...
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