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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!odin.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!netnews.nwnet.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: How to delete files within C programs Followup-To: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Date: 15 May 1996 14:52:43 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 35 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ncnjb$148@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <Oum-El-Kheir.Benkahla-3004961724540001@mac-ugm-3.imag.fr> <4n76vv$29j@innocence.interface-business.de> <kaleb.832080109@exalt> <4naf20$bdh@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> <DrEv0E.17A@kithrup.com> <4nb1tf$qv8@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:22808 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1065 Henry G. Juengst (juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de) wrote: : I do not want to deny that it is possible to find the information (in : most cases). I just want to make people sensitive for the problems : of beginners and I hate answers like 'very simple solution', if it is : in fact not a trivial solution. People would never ask if it is simple. Not true. I know lots of people who couldn't be bothered to find out for themselves. They ask someone. I have no problems with such people as long as they remember the answer. The point is, it _IS_ a 'very simple solution'. If a person is writing C code under Unix, you must assume that they are using an editor. This almost definitely means vi or emacs. Knowing how to use these - even knowing how to get by with these involves a learning curve far greater than deleting a file (and don't start talking about links - it's irrelevent - the file is gone from _my_ view). If this person has problems with calling a function and passing it a filename - if they find it "difficult", they should not be programming. Calling unlink is a _TRIVIAL_ solution ! : 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. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....