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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!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!blackbush.xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de!juengst 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: 8 May 1996 12:40:35 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Strahlen- und Kernphysik Lines: 35 Sender: juengst@saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de (Henry G. Juengst) Distribution: world Message-ID: <4mq4o3$qkh@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> References: <Oum-El-Kheir.Benkahla-3004961724540001@mac-ugm-3.imag.fr> <4mpo0f$57r@innocence.interface-business.de> Reply-To: juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de NNTP-Posting-Host: saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:22522 comp.unix.bsd.misc:942 In article <4mpo0f$57r@innocence.interface-business.de>, j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) writes: >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.]) Nice to see that you compare unix with MSDOS. Please, more! :-))) > >-- >J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer >joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j 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.