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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: 7 May 1996 20:41:39 GMT
Organization: Institut fuer Strahlen- und Kernphysik
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Sender: juengst@saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de (Henry G. Juengst)
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In article <4mo0pd$268@innocence.interface-business.de>, j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>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?)

And some people say that unix is a modern operation system. Fascinating.

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

Henry

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