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Article #3703Re: Deleting files from within C ?
From: markv
Date: Thu, 31 May 1990 17:47
Date: Thu, 31 May 1990 17:47
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> Markus> How does one delete files on (say) the RAM: disc from *within*
> Markus> a C program? I'm just starting to learn C, and I've set
> Markus> myself a project that would make use of this. I want to
> Markus> create temporary work files, and clean up when I finish. It
> Markus> *is* possible, right?
>
> Certainly. The function you're looking for is DeleteFile(), in the
> dos.library. It takes a single parameter, the (C-style) string
> containing the name of the file you want to delete. It returns an
> error if the deletion fails.
What's wrong with ANSI C? How about...
#include <stdio.h>
...
remove("RAM:foofile");
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