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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!tau.uac.net!news.tufts.edu!blanket.mitre.org!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!golden-gate.owl.de!uni-paderborn.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de!juengst From: juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de (Henry G. Juengst) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: How to delete files within C programs Date: 14 May 1996 18:34:19 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Strahlen- und Kernphysik Lines: 31 Sender: juengst@saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de (Henry G. Juengst) Distribution: world Message-ID: <4najnb$fte@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> References: <Oum-El-Kheir.Benkahla-3004961724540001@mac-ugm-3.imag.fr> <4n5cer$33m@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> <4n7mse$o34@web.nmti.com> <4n80eb$oo4@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> <4n99om$e4v@moacs11.moacs.indiv.nl.net> Reply-To: juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de NNTP-Posting-Host: saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:22752 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1049 In article <4n99om$e4v@moacs11.moacs.indiv.nl.net>, waldi@moacs.indiv.nl.net (Waldi Ravens) writes: >Henry G. Juengst <juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de> wrote: >> In article <4n7mse$o34@web.nmti.com>, peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >> > >> >UNIX doesn't have a monopoly on obscure commands, and it at least provides >> >decent cross-references from one part of a subsystem to another so if you >> >know the command to print a file you can find the command to cancel the print >> >> If you know the command to print... > >Which may easily be determined with "apropos print". Yes, if your unix has 'apropos' and good manual pages like e.g. NetBSD (please excuse if I didn't mention your favorite unix flavour:-). I am afraid, but this is not true for all unix variants. Other operting systems use 'print' to print files. > > >Waldi Henry -- juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de [131.220.161.1] (Internet) omni:.de.uni-bonn.physik.saph1::juengst (DECnet/OSI, phase V) saph1::juengst [26.358] (DECnet, phase IV) Any opinions in this mail are my own.