@echo off Set Day=%XDate:~0,3% echo %Day% if '%Day%=='Mon echo del /q \Thu\*.* if '%Day%=='Tue echo del /q \Fri\*.* if '%Day%=='Wed echo del /q \Mon\*.* if '%Day%=='Thu echo del /q \Tue\*.* if '%Day%=='Fri echo del /q \Wed\*.* rem The /q deletes without asking confirmation change as required. Works in XP ok. Type "del /?" for more info. rem Delete the echo's there there just for safety.

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Sorry Forget To add First Line @echo off for /f %%a in ('date /t') do set XDate=%%a Set Day=%XDate:~0,3% echo %Day% if '%Day%=='Mon echo del /q \Thu\*.* if '%Day%=='Tue echo del /q \Fri\*.* if '%Day%=='Wed echo del /q \Mon\*.* if '%Day%=='Thu echo del /q \Tue\*.* if '%Day%=='Fri echo del /q \Wed\*.* rem The /q deletes without asking confirmation change as required. Works in XP ok. Type "del /?" for more info. rem Delete the echo's there there just for safety.

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Does this work in MS DOS 6.22 standalone ??? DO NOT BAN THE MESSENGER

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Hi rogerashley No. But neither does NT task scheduler. Write one for standalone DOS if required, but would need to write a debug script to obtain the Day-of-week.

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I was unable to get this to work. I guess I will just create 5 seperate batch files for each day of the week and do it that way. Thanks for the help.

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So if this is not for MS DOS 6.22 standalone how come it is in this forum?, and how relevent is it to MS DOS and compatible users? http://83.67.55.228/ DO NOT BAN THE MESSENGER

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morphine you try the programming forum as dtech10 pointed out NT tsak scheduler is not in DOS Standalone, which is what this forum is for!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DO NOT BAN THE MESSENGER

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"Below is the DOS Standalone message area. This forum is for all Standalone versions of DOS, not the "DOS" prompt contained inside later versions of Windows." This is what is at top of FORUM written by JW DO NOT BAN THE MESSENGER

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dtech10 et al, This should work in most DOS anf NT: ::** @echo off > quit.bat echo.|date>today :TUE find /i "TUE" < today > nul if errorlevel 1 goto WED del FRI quit :WED find /i "WED" < today > nul if errorlevel 1 goto THU del MON quit :THU find /i "THU" < today > nul if errorlevel 1 goto FRI del TUE quit :: and so on ::** Notes: For versions which support it, use del /q. For others, use echo y|del The default file mask for a DEL is *.*, so this: del thu is equivalent to: del thu\*.* Also, this uses FIND but no DEBUG. For versions of FIND which do not support /i it will need to have the day string hardwired. "Tue" NOT "TUE". For a bat to get DAY DATE & TIME into vars using NO external commands, see my world famous DTWINALL posted several months ago. M2 If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

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Hi Morphine, Try #15. The Set Day=%XDate:~0,3% is much more elegant, but depends on the date layout on the particular box. Read the notes. As is it will prompt you to confirm the DEL. After you are comfortable with the script you can tailor it to run with no prompt. Wide ranging deletes with an untested script are a BAD idea. Not also that as written by dtech10, the directories to be cleared are off the root. The one I wrote assumes the BAT is in the directoru immediately above the data dirs. You can hardwire the paths or, much better, lead in with a CD. HTH M2 If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

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