Re: Lattice question: is there a "link"

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From: Deven T. Corzine
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 1990 01:29

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In article <2474@awdprime.UUCP>
robin@sabre.austin.ibm.com (Robin D. Wilson/1000000) writes:

Robin> According to the lattice manual, the rename(old,new) call will
Robin> rename old to new.  Unfortunately, it will not remove new, if
Robin> it exists, and it will not allow you to specify a path to
Robin> "new".

On 31 May 90 20:00:32 GMT,
cmcmanis@stpeter.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) said:

Chuck> You are doing the rename on the same Volume yes? If you rename
Chuck> from Foo:A to Foo:B then A should be removed. If you rename
Chuck> from Foo:A to Bar:B then what you get is a copy of A to B, and
Chuck> A is not deleted.

No, it seems you missed the point -- If you rename Foo:A to Foo:B and
Foo:B already exists, it will not be removed.  That was the complaint.
I believe the other bit about the path probably means you can't give
the name of a directory as a destination...

Deven
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From: deven@rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Lattice question: is there a "link"
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Date: 3 Jun 90 01:29:09 GMT
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