[Coco] List directory, delete directory, or quit ? (l/d/q)

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 01 February 2015 08:54:10 Allen Huffman did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On Feb 1, 2015, at 7:38 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > Since deldir is recursive, q, AFAIK, only quits the deletion of that
> > particular directory IIRC.
> 
> Well shucks. I guess it’s the OS-9 version of “Abort, Retry,
> Ignoreâ€‌ from early PC-DOS days ;-)
> 
> I see deldir can’t handle files without write permission. I have a
> bunch left over I have to go in and manually delete, I guess. Was
> deldir always this broken?

Chuckle.  But since that implies first changing the attr's of the file, 
I'd say that deldir needs a new cli option that means do it anyway.

Patches welcome. Suggested new -option from the cli would be -n, for nuke 
it anyway. :)

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