add inbuilt delete command
Posted: 19.10.2007, 11:04
The delete command suffers from the same sort of problem that the copy command does - it is using the windows api call to delete a directory tree,
The trouble with this is that it first tries to list the contents. On a local drive this can be very slow, and across a network (even my GB one) it can take ages to even start deleting files - which it doesn't do any faster for all that time up front!
It should be shifted to an internal routine, which would start deleting WITHOUT doing a full listing first...
Ian
The trouble with this is that it first tries to list the contents. On a local drive this can be very slow, and across a network (even my GB one) it can take ages to even start deleting files - which it doesn't do any faster for all that time up front!
It should be shifted to an internal routine, which would start deleting WITHOUT doing a full listing first...
Ian