Maxl - Shell Escape

Hi,
I have read the manual - which is very brief.
I have read Cameron's blog - Cameron's Blog For Essbase Hackers: Stupid Programming Tricks #12 -- How to trap for import errors in MaxL
But I cannot get my very simple; -
Shell del c:\temp\myfile.txt ;
To work.
The behaviour is that it seems that it is trying to run c:\temp\myfile.txt but not 'seeing' the del(ete) command.
My Version 11.1.2.2
I am running this from MaxL editor is EAS.
I have also tried
Shell "del c:\temp\myfile.txt" ;
But then I just get a message that Shell "del c:\temp\myfile.txt" ; is being ignored.
Anyone help please?
thanks,
Robert.
Shell del c:\temp\myfile.txt ;

Many thanks,
before I sprinkle you with 'correct' points, can you kindly explain the purpose of the /f in the line, is this some sort of continuation character, if there were multiple whitespace breaks in the line would I need to fill each space with a /f to 'tell' shell that there is more??
thanks,
Robert.

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