VMS Help RMS, $ERASE  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

    The Erase service deletes a disk file and removes the file's
    directory entry specified in the path to the file. If additional
    directory entries have been created for this file by the Enter
    service, you must use the Remove service to delete them.

    Format

      SYS$ERASE  fab [,[err] [,suc]]

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