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Hey,

Does anyone know how the KILL (delete) command works? I'm a newbie, please be nice.

Brentis  ::)

You can use it in a couple different ways:

KILL "C:\TEMP\FILENAME.TXT"

. . . or use a variable:

file$ = "C:\TEMP\FILENAME.TXT"
KILL file$

. . . or build a variable:

path$ = "C:\TEMP\"
filename$ = "mytext.txt"
file$ = path$ + filename$
KILL file$

Artie

Thanks. But, can you modify/access text files in Quick Basic?

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11 years old?!?!?
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Visit http://www.anti-squirrel.com.

You can modify/access/delete any file using QuickBASIC.

Whatever path & filename you put in quotes after the KILL command will be deleted.

You can open or modify a file using the various forms of the OPEN command.

If you want, just try it.  Make a dummy file of whatever you want using an editor, give it any name and path, then "KILL" it using QB.