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000179_icon-group-sender _Wed Sep 1 07:38:48 1999.msg
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Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 13:55:22 +0100
From: J D Burnley <D.Burnley@sheffield.ac.uk>
To: icon-group@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
Subject: The remove() function
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
Status: RO
I'm no programmer, although I do manage to do useful things with Icon
which I couldn't do with any other language (esp. text manipulation).
In most of the programs I write (using DOS), the remove() function
refuses to delete the files named. Although of course it works from a
stand-alone procedure devoted to the purpose, it won't work predictably
from the same procedure called within a larger program -- even if the
file has been explicitly closed.
There may be no simple answer to this, but if there is, I'd be grateful
to know it.
Regards,
David Burnley.