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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to delete files within C programs
Date: 7 May 1996 17:20:45 GMT
Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden
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juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de (Henry G. Juengst) wrote:

> The question was not how to redefine a function name. The person was
> looking for the function name.

And the simple answer was to buy a C book, and find that he's supposed
to use `remove()'.  `unlink()' is indeed system-dependant for Unices,
but it doesn't matter as long as the library implements ANSI C.

(We don't chat about 15-year old implementations here, do we?)

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j