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HI R users I have one question for using DOS command through "system" I like to delete a file that is located at C:\Program Files\DOSPROGRAM\input.dat I can use a DOS command "del" on Dos prompt like this C:\Documents and Settings> del "C:\Program Files\DOSPROGRAM\input.dat" to delete input.dat file. When I try to do the same thing on R using "system" command system('del "C:\Program Files\DO...

...ite a very short script for my small pilot simulation study. I need to call a DOS program with different input data files in the middle of for loop. There are 100 input data files (e.g., input001.dat, input002.dat, .... , input100.dat) for (1 in i :100) { system('"C:\\Program Files\\DOSPROGRAM\\RUN.exe" input001.dat') } I like to change the input data file name as for loop runs. How can I do that ? Thanks in advance TM

Hi all, I am trying to migrate a NetWare file server to samba (on Red Hat 9). My problem is that unfortunatelly samba is somehow painfully slow, when we run DOS programs from it on the client machines. The NetWare server is an ancient machine. P1, probably. The Samba server is P4 3G, 1G RAM, RAID mirroring, etc. We are running and old DOS program on the client machines, and when it's