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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Duesseldorf.Germany.EU.net!Bonn.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: 8 May 1996 09:03:11 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4mpo0f$57r@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> <DqtDDy.Hrq@metapro.dialix.oz.au> <4md46o$1bk@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> <4mo0pd$268@innocence.interface-business.de> <4moci3$80u@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 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:22523 comp.unix.bsd.misc:943 juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de (Henry G. Juengst) wrote: > >(We don't chat about 15-year old implementations here, do we?) > > And some people say that unix is a modern operation system. Fascinating. It actually is, since it's been able to cope with technical progress. Much unlike MessyDOS, which appeared after Unix, cloned some of the Unix features in a miserable way (the hierarchical file system, though they've botched the pathname separator, see also the mention of `ioctl's in DOS), but finally got stuck in its own misdesign. It wasn't extensible enough. (Certainly nobody is willing to work with a 15-year old Unix today, except for fun, but it's a matter of fact that there has never been a major break in the development line, so you've always been able to compile 5 or 10 year old programs on a current Unix without too much hassles. [With minor exceptions, of course.]) -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j