Jerome Chan <eviltofu at mac.com> is claimed by the authorities to have written:

> Given the full path, how do I delete a directory (simply)? Most of what I'
> ve gathered from FileDirectory is that I need to find the parent directory 
> and then ask it to delete the directory I want. Is there a simpler way?
This small changeset should solve your problem; it's a couple of methods
from the latest VMMaker.

(FileDirectory on: myPath) recursiveDelete

...should do it. To my surprise it seems very fast even when deleting a
large Squeak VM source code tree, so it will probably not need any
primitive support.

tim

-- 
Tim Rowledge, tim at sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim
Useful random insult:- One clown short of a circus.

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