OpenEuphoria

Recycle Bin (was: "paper basket")

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <jluethje at gmx.de> Jun 10, 2002
• 446 views

Hello Jeff,

you wrote:

<snip>
> Under Windows, I think you can use SHFileOperation. I haven't tried it,
> but from the documentation it looks promising. See 
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/Shell/reference/functions/shfileoperation.asp
>
> for more information.

Yup, that's what I've been looking for.

> I don't think it would work for a DOS program, however.

I just searched Ralf Brown's Interrupt List for "Recycle Bin", and
didn't find an entry.

> Under Linux, there isn't a standard "Recycle Bin." Some window managers, 
> such as GNOME (www.gnome.org) and KDE (www.kde.org) do have something 
> like it, but I haven't tried using it in any of my programs.

> Jeff

Thank you!

Best regards,
   Juergen