Gulam's rm cmd

Article View: comp.sys.atari.st

Article #27858

#27858

From: Prabhaker Mateti
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1987 04:48

13 lines
1207 bytes

In article <22@piring.cwi.nl> steven@cwi.nl writes:
>
>Another problem to look out for: if you try 'rm prog.c.i' it removes
>prog.c without any complaint. This bit me in a command file, where I
>had 'rm $1.i', which I called in a sleepy moment with prog.c as
>argument...

This is really a TOS/GEMDOS 'problem.'  Gulam's rm simply calls Fdelete(fnm).
It is possible to even create a file with 'no name'; try Fcreate("..",0),
or Frename(0, oldname, "..").
-- 
prabhaker mateti,   case western reserve university,  cleveland, oh 44106
{decvax,cbosgd,sun}!cwruecmp!pm     pm@cwru.edu            (216) 368-2816

Technical Details

Message-ID: <2202@cwruecmp.UUCP>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!cbosgd!cwruecmp!pm

References: <109@karhu.tut.UUCP> <22@piring.cwi.nl>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!cbosgd!cwruecmp!pm
From: pm@cwruecmp.UUCP (Prabhaker Mateti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Gulam's rm cmd
Message-ID: <2202@cwruecmp.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Aug-87 00:48:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: cwruecmp.2202
Posted: Mon Aug  3 00:48:02 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 4-Aug-87 01:37:14 EDT
References: <109@karhu.tut.UUCP> <22@piring.cwi.nl>
Reply-To: pm@cwruecmp.UUCP (Prabhaker Mateti)
Organization: CWRU Dept. of Computer Engineering, Cleveland, Ohio
Lines: 13

Reply to Parent Message