Copying and deleting folder trees using compiler directives

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Hi,

I can't see an easy way to delete a folder tree at compile time using
compiler directive statements. I want to copy my files to compile from a
network drive to my local drive, compile them there, then upload them back
to the network to speed up the compilation time

I figured I can use #run to run xcopy.exe to copy a folder tree, but I can't
run "rmdir /s" to remove the folder tree, which is needed to ensure old
files are not compiled from a previous build. Since this command is part of
the DOS shell it doesn't have an associated .EXE filename to specify in the
#run dialog and so it seems the command doesn't get executed. The rmdir
command line I need to run takes the path to delete from a compiler variable
so I can't use a pre-written batch file. Also, I can't create the batch file
dynamically with the correct pathnames since this isn't possible using
compiler directives

Does anybody have any ideas for this?

Regards,

Jeff Botwood
Data Design Services

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Hi Jeff,

Perhaps "cmd rmdir /s" in #run works?

Friedrich

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Thanks Friedrich, you got me looking in the right place, just need to add a
/C switch to get CMD to run the relevant command

CMD /C RMDIR /S does the job

Jeff