On 17 July 2010 15:08, Mark Evenson evenson@panix.com wrote:
It turns out "ERASE" is a something like a DOS shell primitive, and can't be invoked by RUN-SHELL-COMMAND (who knew DOS could get *more* primitive).
Oh. It must be a command internal to the command interpreter (cmd.exe, or in the days of yore, command.com). We would need to invoke the interpreter specificly and pass erase as the command to run.