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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!genmagic!sgigate.sgi.com!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!ixnews1.ix.netcom.com!ix.netcom.com!news From: SolutionWorks <solwork@popd.ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: How to delete files within C programs Date: 30 Apr 1996 19:19:16 GMT Organization: Andersen Consulting Lines: 6 Message-ID: <4m5p3k$3nq@dfw-ixnews2.ix.netcom.com> References: <Oum-El-Kheir.Benkahla-3004961724540001@mac-ugm-3.imag.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: stp-fl4-06.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NETCOM-Date: Tue Apr 30 2:19:16 PM CDT 1996 X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2 (Windows; U; 16bit) To: Oum-El-Kheir.Benkahla@imag.fr Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:22282 comp.unix.bsd.misc:868 Very simple solution, use the 'unlink' system function to delete files from C programs. If the name of the file is variable, use 'sprintf' to create the filename, then 'unlink' to delete it... Rich