How to delete a bunch of files with wildcards ?

Stupid me.............

Ok a bit sleepy but here is the trick that will do it

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
  sr : TSearchRec;
  res: integer;
  thisdir: string;
begin
  thisdir :='c:\arj\dtext23\bitmaps';
  if DirectoryExists(thisdir) then
  try
    SetCurrentDir(Thisdir);
    res := FindFirst('*.*', 0, sr);
    try
      while (res = 0) do
      begin
        if (sr.name <> '.') and (sr.name <> '..') then
        begin
          DeleteFile(sr.name);
        end;
        res := FindNext(sr);
      end;
    finally
      FindClose(sr);
    end;
    SetCurrentDir('c:\arj\dtext23');
    RmDir(ThisDir);
  except on E:Exception do
      showmessage(E.Message);
  end;
end;

put Filectrl in your uses clause for the directoryexists function.

Thx, I will try it.
Looks good a first sight.