windows 98 SE, is what I am running so unfortunately I wont be able to use the s option,

I could verywell make a perl script that would do the task, or as sugested directory listing into a file, then use a script to read the file and execute a del comand for each file found. I am going to see if somewhere I can download the del command that comes with Windows XP, and replace mine with the new one, that might work.

I know that you can download the defrag that comes with Windows ME and replace the one in Win 98 with the one that Win ME has and it will run faster, aparently the defrag in Win me and above was writen beter.

So maybe appling that concept a simple replacement in my c:\windows\command directory may work. Or I could write my own dir command, and replace.

Thanks very much for the sugestions.