Re: Deleting a file
- Posted by Lucius L Hilley III <luciuslhilleyiii at JUNO.COM> Apr 30, 1997
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On Mon, 28 Apr 1997 19:09:12 -0400 Architek <architek at GEOCITIES.COM> writes: > >Hi, I've got a problem: >I need to delete a file, but don't want to use the system() function, >cause it has to be "transparent" to the user. > > ************************************ > This message sent by Daniel Berstein > ************************************ > email: architek at geocities.com If you are doing it from text mode then you can make your active page, 1 or 2 or something other than your display page which I believe is 0 by default. ONLY problem there is that I believe your error message will pop up on page 0. NOT sure. Check it out. You should have no problem using this with DOS commands such as copy. I am under ver 6.22 of DOS. My del doesn't return anything. unless the file isn't found. You should use: file = "filename.tmp" system("del "& file, 2) OR system("del filename.tmp", 2) Since delete doesn't display anything you can do it under Text or Graphics mode. Hope this helps --Lucius Lamar Hilley III -- E-mail at luciuslhilleyiii at juno.com -- I support transferring of files less than 60K. -- I can Decode both UU and Base64 format.