Steve, that's good to know; the above was just re-doing the (now lost) C++ program as I remembered it as a batch file. As I've mentioned quite a few times previously in this forum, it is my goal to replace C++ programs by batch files whenever possible, and it's generally pretty much always possible given the "powers" and capabilities of TCC. And you are using some options on the "del" command that I wasn't aware of; but that's not too surprising given both my bad memory and the almost overabundance of options/capabilities that TCC has. - Dan
(By the way, what does the acronym "AFAIK" stand for?)