As Jeff points out it makes no difference whether you use PURGELINK or rm if you are operating on a file . However, when it comes to removing symbolic links (the intended purpose of the PURGELINK command) I happen to prefer PURGELINK to rm because I know beyond any doubt that PURGELINK is working on the link itself. I have to stop and think whether rm removes the link, or the target of the link. Doug. Doug Werth Beechglen Development Inc. [log in to unmask] Cincinnati, Ohio Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > "Pickering, John (NORBORD)" wrote: > > Can someone comment on the difference between PURGELINK and using > > rm.hpbin.sys? Is one "safer" or "better" than the other? Or are the > > results the same? > > They are essentially the same. A shortcut is to (within the shell) > simply "mv newfile oldfile" and respond "Y" when prompted to remove the > existing oldfile (or use mv -f newfile oldfile).