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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!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!news.cse.psu.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet 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: 1 May 1996 19:09:00 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4m8csc$3jg@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <Oum-El-Kheir.Benkahla-3004961724540001@mac-ugm-3.imag.fr> <4m5p3k$3nq@dfw-ixnews2.ix.netcom.com> <4m7sr3$rf9@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:22321 comp.unix.bsd.misc:879 juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de (Henry G. Juengst) writes: >>Very simple solution, use the 'unlink' system function to delete files > >This might be a simple solution if you know the solution, but why should >a beginner know that the function to delete a file is not something like >'delete_file', but 'unlink' in the unix mud ? The basic problem (in understanding) is that there is no such function to _delete_ a file, only one to remove a directory entry. Anyway, unlink() is plain standard C, so you can get any C book to learn this. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j