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to: david nugent
from: Iain Martin
date: 1993-11-08 09:28:00
subject: Deleting a file

>> I am curious if anyone out there knows how to delete a file
 >> in a program without using the system (); function

 > remove()

 >> P.S. the file is always in the current directory.

 > remove() accepts a full path or just a file name if that
 > resolves to the file you want to delete.  Wildcard deletions
 > aren't supported.

thanks a lot David, I'll look up delete and unlink I  think is the other
function I've been told about.

 > BTW, make friends with the indexes in your compiler
 > documentation. It makes essential reading.

I looked for a function in there but could not find one, I figured it would
of been in dir.h so I guessed that there was not one, I clean forgot to
check stdio.h.


  Regards,
  Iain.


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