OpenEuphoria

Re: File handling

• Posted by Daniel Berstein <daber at PAIR.COM> Jun 07, 1998
• 494 views

-----Original Message-----
De: Hawke <mdeland at NWINFO.NET>
Para: EUPHORIA at cwisserver1.mcs.muohio.edu
<EUPHORIA at cwisserver1.mcs.muohio.edu>
Fecha: sábado 6 de junio de 1998 23:23
Asunto: Re: File handling


>Daniel Berstein wrote:
>>
>> Has anyone done routines for deleting, renaming, copying, moving, and
>> creating temporary files?
>>
>> I'd never realized Euphoria didn't bring this ?!
>>
>> Rob, why don't you include these standard C functions on next release
>> (there're at io.h, stdio.h, dir.h):
>>
>>     access    chmod    chsize    lock
>>     unlock     mktemp  remove  rename
>>     mkdir       rmdir
>
>
>
>did you take a look at the system command? you get access to all of
>DOS's
>functions that way...also, unless i miss my guess, those commands above
>are a variant of some sort of UNIX...no? if so, then (to my knowledge)
>Euphoria doesn't support UNIX variants yet...
>
>hope this helps (HTH-- my contribution to the initial clutter for this
>week :) )
>--mike


I know we can use system(), but that's a shell call... not a native code.
The point is that it's really easy for Rob to include them in Euphoria.
Besides, if you're using a GUI a system() call will flicker the screen.

Regards,
    Daniel Berstein
    daber at pair.com